American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 117
- Number 11
- May 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages972–979A series of entrenched medical traditions has been recognized as obstructive for the development of effective mental health practices and the on-going assessments of patient care. Traditional patterns of isolation within and between medical and non-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.972Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages980–990A cannula, and a method for its accurate implantation into predetermined brain regions, is described. This technique makes possible the accurate injection of minute quantities of chemicals into specific deep regions of the brain. The behavioral effects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.980Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages991–996In summary, in the process of exploring the neonates' behavioral and autonomic repertoire for the purpose of devising techniques that would enable us to measure temperamental differences, we have come across two phenomena that we would like to emphasize. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.991Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages997–1003Five hundred and twenty chronic, withdrawn and apathetic schizophrenic men were selected for 20 weeks of treatment with combined drug therapy. All had been on maintenance doses of chlorpromazine (200-600 mg.) for 2 or more months. Activator drugs were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.997Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1004–1009The individual who has had a stroke is reacting to a situation of stress that has many unique features. Patients who have experienced mild strokes with little or no residual mental impairment react to the stress in their own idiosyncratic fashion. Some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1004Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1010–1015The concept of role is considered to be a focal concept derived in the scientific study of social life to which social scientists and psychiatrists are increasingly turning their attention. A brief review of the development of this concept has been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1010Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1016–1019An examination of premorbid personality in 77 inpatients with severe obsessional states shows that obsessional personality and illness are intimately connected and that the conventional obsessional traits, present in 84% of the group, justify their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1016Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1020–1022A case report involving a cardiac arrest in a patient following EST is given. Possible mechanisms and prevention of this cardiac catastrophe is discussed. The possibility is raised that closed chest cardiac massage could be utilized effectively in cardiac ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1020Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1023–1027This survey revealed a more hopeful outcome for this group of seriously sick children than previous reports have suggested. It is gratifying to find that so many are doing well and that others, doing less well, are so comfortably absorbed by their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1023Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1031–1032Fluphenazine (Prolixin) is a highly effective tranquilizing agent which may be administered with safety to non-hospitalized patients with a variety of psychiatric illnesses. The drug is especially helpful in facilitating psychotherapy. The almost ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1031Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1032–1033In insulin coma therapy, in those patients who regularly require intravenous injections of glucose to bring them out of coma, the intramuscular injection of 1 or 1½ mg. of neostigmine from 10 to 45 minutes before gavage with 1 quart of 40% sucrose ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1032Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1034–1035The administration of several classes of tranquilizers under standard conditions failed to eliminate the characteristic odor found in certain schizophrenic patients.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1034Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1035–1037Eighteen markedly obese men were carefully matched with 18 men of normal weight and given a battery of psychological tests. No distinctive personality features were found.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1035Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1038–1039The tranylcypromine-trifluoperazine combination is of definite benefit in the treatment of patients with severe agitated depressions. In the author's experience this combination represents the only psychopharmacologic antidepressant that is of proven ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.11.1038Publication date: 01 May 1961
Pages1041–1042A case is reported showing an unusual side effect due to Mellaril.
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