American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 117
- Number 10
- April 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages865–872Isocarboxazid, an iproniazid analog, showed better results in the treatment of 195 patients with depressive and acute schizophrenic reactions than were seen in varying numbers of patients on 7 other antidepressants, including 223 treated with iproniazid. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.865Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages887–890Four social history and 12 prognostic factors, reported in the literature to have statistical validity, were studied in this investigation. In addition, personality, historical and demographic data of 80 consecutive first hospital admission patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.887Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages891–896A total of 47 adolescent patients (26 males and 21 females) were treated in our units in 2⅓ years of operation. This total includes those patients previously mentioned who were subsequently found to be untreatable. There were 39 schizophrenics, 4 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.891Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages897–902We are by no means finished in our exploration of better ways to teach the interpretive process, and it is obvious that many other factors not covered here are involved in the process. Certainly a great deal of psychiatric learning occurs before this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.897Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages910–9151. Psychiatric evaluations were made of 56 volunteers for hallucinogen studies. Diagnoses were made on 46% of the group. Forty-one percent were estimated as needing psychiatric treatment. Twenty percent of these had received some form of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.910Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages916–921The actual way in which our "mental health statistics" came to be what they are is not through the process of "detecting" a certain number of "cases" in a population as a result of "hospitalization." Instead, the figures which are published are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.916Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages923–924Methaminodiazepoxide (Librium) was beneficial for 60% of obsessive compulsive patients and for about one-third of others suffering from chronic neuroses and/or depression. These benefits achieved by patients previously considered therapeutically ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.923Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages924–926We have isolated a compound which is probably responsible for the observation of false-positive phenothiazine tests not attributable to acute or chronic liver disease, phenylketonuria, high salicylate or other drug intake(6). Since the isolated compound ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.924THE INFLUENCE OF CORTISONE-ACETATE ON SOME SERUM PHOSPHORUS METABOLITES IN YOUNG MALE SCHIZOPHRENICS
Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages926–928Oral cortisone acetate can differentiate between young male schizophrenics and a comparable control group by inducing an increase in alkaline phosphatases and a decrease in phospho-lipids in the former. No such changes were observed in the latter group.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.926Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages930–931The findings indicate that low-dose akathisia results from an individual's specific sensitivity to a specific molecular configuration. There is a population with a low threshold for the disorder. Thresholds are determined by the spectrum of individual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.930Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages931–932Of the 2 drugs, Marplan seems more indicated as the drug of choice for the nonagitated endogenous depression, Taractan for agitated depression.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.10.931Publication date: 01 April 1961
Pages932–933It would appear that the incidence and severity of Parkinsonism in this age group is so high that trifluoperazine should be used very cautiously. Occurrence of 1 very dramatic recovery and 3 cases of gratifying improvement suggest that trifluoperazine may ...
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