American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 111
- Number 2
- August 1954
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages84–90Our experience that patients with severe schizophrenic symptoms tend to improve whether lobotomized or not confirms the need for control cases in studies of the effects of lobotomy. In series rigorously matched regarding the general and specific severity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.2.84Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages108–1111. A preliminary study of 21 patients suffering postshock amnesia is reported. 2. In 17 patients, much of the amnesia was relieved during interview with sodium amytal. The 4 patients showing no improvement in recall were still acutely psychotic at the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.2.108Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages121–122A new approach to treat mental illness and intractable pain by way of a direct electric shock therapy over specific cortical or parenchymal brain areas is discussed.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.2.121Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages123–131A questionnaire survey concerning the psychiatric resident and his training has been conducted among a majority (72%) of the residents in 14 major training centers. Of the 169 residents who replied almost all were in the first 3 years of training and had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.2.123Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages132–138We have presented certain clinical pictures typified by a disorder of impulse. This disorder may express itself in a rather specific symptomatic disturbance appearing as an impulse neurosis, a perversion, or a catathymic crisis. On the other hand, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.2.132Publication date: 01 August 1954
Pages139–1451. In order to study thyroid and lipid function in mongolism, the levels of serum protein-bound iodine, cholesterol, and the fraction of Sf 12-20 molecules of lipoproteins were studied in a group of 74 mongoloid patients, and these were compared with the ...
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