American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 10
- April 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages873–881In an effort to highlight the type and extent of research in schizophrenia in the United States during the past 190 years various references have been described according to certain categories of investigation. While no single review of all the studies ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.873Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages882–8891. The value of studying motor activity in mental illness should not be overlooked. Motor activity within the central nervous system is intimately tied up with sensation, emotion, and thinking. An understanding of the neurophysiology of any one of these, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.882Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages890–8991. Eighteen children, hospitalized for asthma, when exposed to their own house dust showed no demonstrable change in their respiration irrespective of their skin sensitivities to house dust. 2. Our clinical studies describe a need for closeness in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.890Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages900–909An acute confusional state has been described, occurring in young adults in colleges in the Chicago Area with specific characteristics as to genesis, presenting complaints, onset, course, and treatment. Psychodynamic reconstruction is as follows: In ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.900Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages910–9161. Recent and more refined epidemiologic data indicate that the incidence of functional pychoses in the elderly population is much higher than earlier studies have indicated. 2. Analysis of the epidemiologic data indicates that there is a close ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.910Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages917–920Our studies concerned with the clinical effects of the administration of taraxein, a protein isolated from the serum of schizophrenic patients and not obtained from normal serum through our processing procedure, are summarized. In addition, we reported ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.917Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages921–922A critical review of the so-called "double blind" study reveals pitfalls, fallacies and inadequacies of this method of investigation which in the past has created an unwarranted security in many investigators. The "Worsening" of patients' conditions while ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.921Publication date: 01 April 1958
Pages935–936Cetadiol does not have a tranquilizing or sedating effect on patients suffering from delirium tremens or alcoholic hallucinosis. It does not shorten the course of delirium tremens. The placebo used in this study is as effective as Cetadiol in relieving ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.10.935