American Journal of Psychiatry

1. Fourteen of 21 cases treated with Antabuse abstained from alcohol for periods of 2 to 4 months. Twenty-one cases represent too small a group from which to draw many general conclusions. However, the drug appears to have value in the treatment of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.8

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A STUDY OF RESULTS IN HOSPITAL TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM IN MALES

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages14–19

1. A study has been made of 100 men suffering from chronic alcoholism, admitted consecutively to the New York Hospital, Westchester Division, between August, 1940, and January, 1948. 2. A review of statistical factors involving hereditary and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.14

THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM IN KORSAKOFF SYNDROME

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages20–24

1. The electroencephalograms were examined of 21 patients with a history of severe alcoholism and a confabulatory amnestic psychosis, nystagmus, and peripheral neuropathy. 2. The electroencephalographic findings were not characteristic of this syndrome: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.20

AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL STUDY OF CHILDREN WITH PRIMARY BEHAVIOR DISORDERS

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages25–33

1. The literature pertaining to EEG and clinical studies of children with behavior disorders is reviewed and special attention is given to techniques of recording and evaluating EEGs, diagnostic classification of children, and the findings of various ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.25

SQUARE WAVES (BST) VERSUS SINE WAVES IN ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages34–41

1. A report on our first year's experience with the Liberson-Offner Brief Stimulus technique for electroconvulsive therapy is presented in comparison with conventional sine wave technique. 2. Clinical study shows these methods to be equally effective in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.34

HIGH FIDELITY RECORDING OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC INTERVIEWS

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages42–48https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.42

PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF CORD INJURY

BENEDICT NAGLER

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages49–56https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.49

ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL FACTORS IN MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EFFECT OF SHOCK THERAPY

Publication date: 01 July 1950

Pages57–68

A review of temporal factors in 262 cases of manic-depressive psychosis indicates that the onset of illness is somewhat later in men than in women. Neither the age of onset, i.e., before or after 40, nor the type of predominant phase of illness, i.e., ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.57