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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 106
  • Number 3
  • September 1949

Article

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages174–184

(1) A selected group of 25 chronic psychiatric cases who manifested seizures after lobotomy and 46 chronic psychiatric cases who were seizure-free after lobotomy were studied clinically and electroencephalographically. (2) An analysis of the prelobotomy ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.174

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages185–189

In spite of the fact that the rate of admissions to the Chicago State Hospital has increased in 1945/47 as compared with 1935/37, the number of deaths during these two periods has not increased. The death rate, expressed as percentage of admissions, has ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.185

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages190–194

Various observations reported in the literature suggest that the so-called Alzheimer changes of the intracellular neurofibrils in senile and presenile conditions are associated with dehydration. In the present experiments rabbits' brains were dehydrated ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.190

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages195–198

This paper is the fourth in a series dealing with encephalopathy due to brain injury and brain disease. The test results indicate that the functioning and efficiency of the patients in both groups follow a similar pattern: full scale IQ's within the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.195

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages199–205

There is a need for an objective test to identify the alcoholic addict. Such a test undoubtedly would conserve personnel and time within large screening programs. In clinical practice, such a test might be valuable as a therapeutic device. A 60-question ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.199

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages206–211

1. The case of a 44-year-old woman is reported who developed a flaccid paralysis of all four extremities with areflexia after her second electroshock treatment. After her fourth treatment auditory hallucinations were noted and soon thereafter she died. 2. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.206

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages212–215

The present paper follows a previous study which analyzed 735 love and marital and 601 sexual questions of over 2,000 nursing students. In the present paper, 572 non-marital and nonsexual questions of these students, as anonymously asked of a psychiatrist,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.212

Publication date: 01 September 1949

Pages216–221

1. Recent opinions as to the action of subnarcotic doses of barbiturates on the central nervous system are summarized. Reference is made to the view that electroencephalographic studies of schizophrenic patients suggest a "disorder of neural function," i. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.106.3.216

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