American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 111
- Number 8
- February 1955
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages561–5751. Research in psychiatry as in other disciplines is a vital necessity, not a luxury. 2. Psychiatrists have several functions in improving research: actual participation, active and passive support, and the study of investigators. The enormous importance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.561Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages576–582Factors that statistically significantly influence a female patient's discharge from Central State Hospital favorably are (in descending order of significance): (1) Length of stay, (2) Limited education, and (3) Possession of immediate family. Factors, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.576Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages583–5891. Insulin coma therapy at the Pennsylvania Hospital produced an immediate improvement or remission in 67.7% of 780 patients treated between 1936 and 1951. 2. At least 334 patients, or 63.3% of all patients who originally improved, had a relapse; 44% of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.583Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages590–5941. In cases of unilateral and bilateral frontal lobotomy, temporal slow wave activity was found to be a prominent feature, though more transient than the dominant frontal slowing. This nonfrontal slowing may be interpreted as the result of cerebral edema ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.590Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages595–602The basic psychological rationale of handwriting analysis is rooted in the essential self-consistency of human behavior and more specifically in the fact that handwriting is a product and, at the same time, a record of highly individualized motions. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.595Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages603–6161. Adrenochrome in dosages of 10 mgms. does not change the EEG of normal volunteers, but in 10, 25, and 50 mgm. doses increases the bilateral paroxysmal abnormalities in the EEG of epileptics, but has very little effect on the cortical focus itself. 2. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.603Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages617–619A case is presented which did not respond to the administration of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in the level of 450 mgm daily, but instead seemed to become more regressed and hyperactive. Electroshock therapy was given as a lifesaving measure while the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.8.617Publication date: 01 February 1955
Pages622–6231. A case is reported of complete right hemiplegia following the first electroconvulsive treatment in a physically healthy 43-year-old man with a psychotic depression. 2. A brief review of 3 somewhat similar cases is reported from the literature. 3. A 16-...
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