American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 104
- Number 8
- February 1948
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1948
Pages513–523A new type of psychosurgical technique, namely, prefrontal lobectomy, is described. The advantages of this procedure over prefrontal lobotomy are presented. The results of prefrontal lobectomy are reported in 14 patients with 85.7% showing moderate to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.513Publication date: 01 February 1948
Pages528–537The records of three groups of children—normal, preschool children; children with behavior and neurotic problems; and finally, psychotic children—were analyzed with a view of gaining information about and insight into hallucinatory and delusional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.528Publication date: 01 February 1948
Pages548–5541. The clinical findings in the examination of over 30,000 men gave a very definitely higher incidence of emotional instability in the men diagnosed mentally retarded than in those diagnosed non-retarded. 2. Down-grading for instability decreased as 'M' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.548Publication date: 01 February 1948
Pages555–564The one dominant note motivating our entire thinking on hospital design has been, "How does this or that feature improve the patient-doctor relationship?" We have not thought in terms of handling large numbers on a production line basis. This is best left ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.555Publication date: 01 February 1948
Pages570–574A comparative study has been made in a group of institutionalized epileptic mental defectives of the anticonvulsant action of dilantin, tridione, and several barbiturate derivatives. The results indicate that dilantin has the most marked anticonvulsant ...
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