American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 2
- August 1957
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1957
Pages127–133Intermittent photic stimulation has been of value in psychiatric research in a number of areas which include: (1) the development of screening techniques based upon the EEG driving response and subjective responses to photic stimulation; (2) correlated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.127METHODS EMPLOYED AND RESULTS OBTAINED IN PSYCHIATRIC STUDIES WITH NEW DRUGS ACTING ON THE BRAIN STEM
Publication date: 01 August 1957
Pages134–139The method and results of treatment with reserpine, chlorpromazine, and Covatin are reported. Also emphasized are the expediency of a semi-darkened ward and the patient's accessibility to early psychotherapeutic contact. With chronic cases, the knowledge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.134Publication date: 01 August 1957
Pages140–142Results in 115 cases of transorbital leucotomy of noninstitutional patients are reported. The author believes that this is an excellent technique for treatment of selected cases from private practice, as well as such institutional cases reported by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.140Publication date: 01 August 1957
Pages143–1461. Pacatal is capable of eliciting therapeutic responses in chronically psychotic patients. 2. It is most efficacious for those aspects of behavior which are related to increased anxiety and least efficacious for judgment, insight, orientation, memory and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.143Publication date: 01 August 1957
Pages152–161The article reviews data, much of rather recent origin, bearing on the assumption that human personality is more plastic in infancy and childhood than in adulthood. The available data permit the following conclusions: l. We have no compelling evidence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.152Past Issues
View Issues Archive
Vol. 181 | No. 11
Vol. 181 | No. 10
Vol. 181 | No. 9
