American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 107
- Number 11
- May 1951
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages801–8071. A series of 110 patients on whom transorbital leucotomy was performed is reported. 2. These consisted of schizophrenia 74 cases, psychoneuroses 19 cases, affective psychoses 14 cases, paranoid psychosis 2 cases, mental deficiency with paranoia 1 case. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.801Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages814–820This series of 110 patients represents a fairly unusual collection of patients from several considerations. They are largely patients in whom previous forms of therapy have not been effective and who have not developed spontaneous remission. It was our ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.814Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages821–824Twenty-one mental patients were given decamethonium bromide to modify electric convulsive response. A dose of 4 mg. or above was necessary to prevent aggravation of pre-existing traumatic injury. Respiratory paralysis is regularly present when doses of 4 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.821Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages825–831During the past 2 years phenurone (phenacetylurea) has been administered to 59 patients whose presenting complaint was psychomotor epilepsy. In 17 of these patients (29%) the psychomotor attacks occurred without other manifestations of epilepsy; in 42 (71%...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.825A CLINICAL EVALUATION OF TETRAETHYLTHIURAMDISULPHIDE (ANTABUSE) IN THE TREATMENT OF PROBLEM DRINKERS
Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages832–838The Antabuse treatment of problem drinkers appears to be of definite value in the medical management of certain patients by significantly reducing the amount of time devoted to excessive drinking over a long period. It is more likely to prove of value in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.832Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages839–843We have attempted to correlate the neuropsychiatric observations with our psychological investigations concerning emotional impairment with diencephalic lesions. The implications of the complete absence of color response to the Rorschach, in our 9 cases, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.839Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages850–8551. D-desoxyephedrine hydrochloride was employed intravenously in an intensive study of 22 patients with psychoneurotic illness. 2. It was found invaluable as a working tool for— (a) the delineation of defenses available to the patient, and the role of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.11.850Publication date: 01 May 1951
Pages859–8651. The duties of the psychiatric aide have been of a very routine nature in the past, and self-expression and initiative have not been encouraged. Under such conditions, the individual of dull normal intelligence with a tenth grade education has worked ...
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