American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 106
- Number 2
- August 1949
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages81–90One hundred and forty-six replacements to rifle companies were given a brief psychiatric evaluation prior to participation in combat duty. An arbitrary method of scoring divided the men into 4 groups in an effort to predict their combat effectiveness. An ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.81Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages91–98On the basis of family histories, a series of psychoneurotic patients in a university psychiatric clinic was compared to a group of their contemporaries not selected as to mental disease. Minor illnesses and family difficulties were disregarded ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.91Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages99–1061. Psychoses due to drugs or other exogenous poisons represent very few first admissions to hospitals for mental disease in New York State. Such psychoses average only about 0.2% of all first admissions. 2. Despite the small number of such first ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.99Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages107–115Anorexia nervosa dramatically demonstrates the inseparability of mind and body and is a classic example of a psychosomatic disorder. It is primarily a psychic and secondarily a somatic disturbance. Inasmuch as the personality reaction of the individual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.107Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages116–121(1) The physiological and psychological response to intravenous epinephrine and intramuscular mecholyl of 24 neuropsychiatric patients was studied before and after a series of electric shock treatments. Special attention was given to the curves of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.116Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages122–127The wave and spike formations occur usually on the background of a normal basic cortical rhythm, are remarkably constant in their occurrence in a frequency range of 2.5-3.5 cycles per second, but show considerable variations in the position and amplitude ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.122Publication date: 01 August 1949
Pages128–135Results of 61 involutional cases discharged from the Institute of Living, 1935-37, prior to convulsive therapy, are compared with those of 347 involutional cases treated with convulsive therapy between 1945 and 1947. The average number of electric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.2.128Publication date: 01 August 1949
Page143In these 3 cases of trigeminal neuralgia there was apparent complete disappearance of symptoms, with no recurrences since initial electroshock treatments. Further studies are necessary before a conclusion can be drawn as to the value of electroshock ...
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