American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 113
- Number 4
- October 1956
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages295–3011. A case of pheochromocytoma is reported with a fatal cardiac arrest following electroconvlusive therapy. The diagnosis was particularly difficult as no paroxysm of hypertension was ever detected. In addition, there was no sustained hypertension to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.295Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages312–318A process of human artificial selection has been described as it has been practiced for many generations in areas of the world under Russian control. In essence, the process consists of suppression and liquidation of individuals whose personalities and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.312Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages319–324The intracranial tumors found at autopsy in 2,161 mental patients are reported. This group represents 96.9% of all patients who were autopsied at the Western State Hospital during the 16-year period from October 1, 1938, to October 1, 1954. Seventy-eight ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.319Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages325–331Follow-up findings of 133 psychiatric patients evaluated between September 1953 and March 1954 from miscellaneous units surrounding the psychiatric section,3rd Infantry Division, reveal that 75% of patients not in the process of separation at the time of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.325Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages332–336If the operations stemming from a concept comprise its meaning, the meaning of criminal responsibility is defined as deterrent efficiency and/or efficient punishability, quantitative, operational concepts without the metaphysical connotations of moral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.332Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages337–3471. The brains of 4 patients who died following electroshock treatment were studied. 2. A massive intraventricular hemorrhage was found in one. The other 3 had petechial hemorrhages, particularly in the periaqueductal gray matter and brainstem. 3. Only 1 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.337Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages348–351Many investigators have reported that persons under emotional stress display characteristic electrocardiographic changes. Some of these reports are reviewed to determine whether any generalizations are evident. From the published data, it appears that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.348Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages352–360Mescaline produced an inhibitory state accompanied by a schizokenesis or dissociation of systems. This disharmony was also manifested in that the CS appeared to act in the same manner as the US. On this basis a neurodynamic theory of the mechanism of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.352Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages361–3621. Prolonged heavy drinking can produce permanent brain damage. 2. This brain damage is responsible, in many cases, for the permanent loss of control over alcohol that is pathognomonic of alcoholism.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.361Publication date: 01 October 1956
Pages363–364No noticeable therapeutic results were obtained in a series of 50 psychotic patients treated with spinal pumping procedures (Speransky's method). This method cannot be recommended for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.363Publication date: 01 October 1956
Page365A study of emergency psychiatric admissions to a suburban general hospital for a 2-year period is presented. Unfortunately cases listed as "attempted suicides" could not be classified as to diagnosis. Such cases received only emergency treatment and then ...
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