American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 116
- Number 3
- September 1959
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages193–202Studies of many patients before and after lobotomy indicate complex relationships between history, personality and behavioral response after frontal lobe surgery. It has been shown, for example, that postoperative changes may move in either direction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.193Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages208–214This paper has reviewed selected studies that indicate the importance of situational and personal factors on a patient's response to drug therapy. A factorial research design has been proposed as the appropriate means of evaluating several of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.208Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages215–2181. Six cases of children with organic brain disease, which were clinically diagnosed as childhood schizophrenia, are analyzed clinicopathologically. 2. The diagnosis of Heller's disease or of childhood schizophrenia, often made under such circumstances, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.215Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages219–221The administration to 5 chronic schizophrenic patients of BAS alone, of BAS and 5-HTP combined, and of BAS and 5-HTP in conjunction with Marsilid was not therapeutically useful. The fact that the patients did not react to the presumed increase in brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.219Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages222–230A series of 18 consecutive patients were selected for frontal lobe surgery over a 10 year period to obtain relief from chronic, intractable anxiety. Of the 13 who were not psychotic, 12 have returned to a well adjusted, independent existence at home ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.222Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages231–2431. The method of selection of a small group of schizophrenic subjects for long-term biological studies is an essential part of the research. In developing criteria the following concepts are considered: (a) range of variation of irrelevant variables, (b) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.231Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages244–250In conclusion I should like to say that in America and Britain psychiatrists are striving towards the same goal, for we are trying to give the best possible psychiatric treatment to the greatest number of citizens who require it. In Britain however it was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.244Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages251–254The literature on psychiatric day hospitals is reviewed and an account is given of day hospital practice in England in 1956, with respect to types of patients treated and treatment employed. It was found that day hospitals were treating a wide variety of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.3.251Publication date: 01 September 1959
Pages261–262BOL in doses of 10 mg. orally 3 times daily for 4 to 5 weeks was administered to 6 chronically ill schizophrenic women. This abolished the response to LSD up to 200 gamma but failed to alter the psychosis in any way. Initial doses of 10 mg. BOL may ...
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