American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 104
- Number 12
- June 1948
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages753–757Motivation is an extremely important factor in the recovery from illness and in overcoming disability. This is true in many cases of somatic illness and of organic injury, and its influence bears little relation to the gravity of the basic condition. In ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.753Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages765–770Studies by the use of the nitrous oxide technique on 22 schizophrenic patients show no deviation from values obtained in normal young males for cerebral blood flow and oxygen consumption. A clinically significant change in 8 patients given sodium ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.765Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages771–7771. While there are many well-known frustration reactions which the authors fully accept as already demonstrated, a schizophrenic reaction may also be a result of frustration. 2. In schizophrenic frustration reactions, recovery from the syndrome may be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.771Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages778–780After 13 months of intensive investigation of 40 very deteriorated dementia præcox patients, the writers are unable to confirm the conclusions of numerous European and some American authors concerning the postulated etiological relation between M. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.778Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages781–782In spite of the irregular anticonvulsant therapy 55.5% of the patients originally discharged as controlled for at least 4 months have been free from seizures for from 12 to 18 months (Table 1). Approximately 20% have had only one attack. This response to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.781Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages783–785In our studies it was found that group psychotherapy is of definite value as an adjunct treatment of convulsive disorders in that 1. It attempted to eradicate the patient's fears concerning the disease. 2. It eliminated superstitions and misconceptions. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.12.783Publication date: 01 June 1948
Pages786–797Twenty-six offspring representative of 9 families with Huntington's chorea in the immediate ancestry were subjected to the following studies: physical, neurological, psychiatric, psychometric, anthropometric, genetic, and electroencephalographic. Of these ...
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