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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 104
  • Number 3
  • September 1947

Article

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages155–163

We all look with pride on the phenomenal victories of preventive medicine. No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever or typhoid. World epidemics of these diseases are no more. Is there any hope that medicine, through its ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.155

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages164–170

1. Previously described methods of inhalation anæsthesia and hypoxia in psychiatric conditions have been reviewed. 2. A technique of nitrous oxide administration beyond the state of intoxication and avoiding the Stage of deep hypoxemia has been described. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.164

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages171–179

A report on the follow-up study of 50 children presenting behavior disorders and personality changes following an attack of encephalitis is presented. The cases were followed for periods ranging from 4 to 26 years, the majority having been followed for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.171

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages180–193

Certain special features of the circumstances surrounding a group of Allied prisoners of war held for 3 years by the Japanese were so stern and sufficiently unusual as to warrant detailed study of the patterns of reaction of several individuals. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.180

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages194–196

We investigated the EEGs of 46 normal and 50 maladjusted children and found no correlation between encephalogram and psychiatric condition.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.194

Publication date: 01 September 1947

Pages197–199

Thirty-four additional patients with diagnoses of manic-depressive psychosis, involutional melancholia, and schizophrenia were treated with 5 or fewer electric shock treatments. All the patients had complete remissions for periods up to 28 months. Some ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.197

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