American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 107
- Number 6
- December 1950
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages409–414The case of a patient is described who showed slowly progressive mental deterioration with generalized muscular spasticity. No ocular manifestations were observed at any time. Death occurred at the age of 35 years. The patient was the seventh in a sibship ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.409Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages415–421Phenobarbital is still the most effective anticonvulsant in treatment of grand mal epilepsy. Phenobarbital, if incompletely effective, when used alone, is still more effective when supplemented with either Dilantin or Mesantoin than any single drug used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.415Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages422–427From The above study the following conclusions are drawn: 1. That patients show improvement under group therapy as readily as with individual therapy. 2. That certain Latin-American patients respond to group therapy more readily than to individual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.422Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages428–433The differential diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy from psychogenic seizures was discussed from the points of view of difficulty of diagnosis, inadequacy of differentiating data, and the benefit of exact diagnosis to the patient and the taxpayer. An ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.428Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages434–4411. In a series of 2,100 consecutive admissions to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Lyons, N. J., 72% of the schizophrenics were photographed in the standardized somatotype position shortly after admission. 2. These somatotype photographs were rated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.434Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages442–449In undertaking to find a measure to give us a quantitative basis for the prediction of temperamental integration, we computed the difference between normal and each of the other components on the Humm-Wadsworth profile and, also, the sum of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.442Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages459–462The problems of all 10 of the clients of a family agency who have had psychosurgery are reviewed. From the point of view of several of the families, continued hospitalization of the patient would have presented fewer problems than resulted from surgery ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.459Publication date: 01 December 1950
Pages463–4671. A method of evaluating a therapeutic agent in psychiatric disorders is described. [see Tabel 1 in source pdf] 2. Advantages and disadvantages of such a method are discussed. 3. This method is used in a study of the effects of dibenamine in 30 patients ...
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