American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 113
- Number 2
- August 1956
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages97–105After bilateral circumscribed lesions in the region of the dorsomedial and anterior thalamic nuclei, transitory confusion for time (chronotaraxis), frequently alone and sometimes combined with disorientation for place, was found. As a rule this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.97Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages106–1141. Correlative data on EEG changes, behavioral alterations and variations in blood alcohol level were obtained in 3 former narcotic addicts, without anamnestic, neurological or EEG evidence of central nervous system disorder, who received averages of 458-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.106Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages115–1211. Chlorpromazine has many undesirable effects, most of which are transient and of relatively minor clinical significance. 2. Complications of greater severity occur in a significant number of cases but generally resolve rapidly and without residuals. 3. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.115Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages126–132Study of the personalities of fathers of schizophrenic patients and their roles in the family has shown that few, if any, have filled the paternal role usually expected in middle-and upper-class families, and many exerted seriously pathogenic influences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.126Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages133–1371. Two-hundred-seventy cases of patients, aged 60 to 97 years, were reviewed and observations recorded. 2. The largest number suffered from a chronic brain syndrome with arteriosclerotic brain disease. Typical arteriosclerotic vascular changes in small ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.133Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages138–142The phenomena of loss of insight, dulling of consciousness, and loss of inhibition occuring in patients with brain disease are described. These are not explicable solely in terms of a lesion in a particular portion of the brain or as the result of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.138Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages149–157Whereas affective disturbances may accompany almost any organic cerebral disorder, the occurrence of "ictal emotions" (suddenly occurring and again disappearing emotional reactions) are frequently associated with disorders of the temporal lobe. We noted a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.149Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages163–169The literature pertinent to the problem of whether or not schizophrenics are more likely to show "abnormal" or poorly organized records is briefly reviewed. Data collected from 1,000 schizophrenic patients with an average age of 20.4 years are contrasted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.2.163Publication date: 01 August 1956
Pages174–175Spatial disorientation may be the forerunner of delirium, showing up when the patient is otherwise still correctly oriented for place as revealed by the standard questions of the mental examination.
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