American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 117
- Number 6
- December 1960
Article
PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICOLEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND ENDOCRINOLOGIC RESEARCH IN SEX DETERMINATION
Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages481–489This paper has discussed some of the latest discoveries in genetics and in endocrinology and their psychiatric significance. We now know Mongolian idiocy is due to an abnormal condition of the 19th alleles and that it may be associated with Klinefelter's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.481Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages499–505In this study the post-traumatic syndrome was investigated. It was found difficult to define the limits of this condition, and particularly to distinguish it from post-traumatic hysteria. Therefore, both diagnoses were temporarily ignored, and the injury ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.499Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages506–510Further aspects of Administrative Therapy are explored. Some of the methods to be used in transforming a custodial into a therapeutic institution are discussed and also methods of maintaining the momentum of an established therapeutic community.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.506Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages511–518Stimulation of various areas of the limbic and hypothalamic regions in the Macaca mulatta resulted in a variety of responses. These responses were compared with those obtained on stimulating areas of the mid-brain reticular formation. It would appear that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.511Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages525–5321. Psychosurgery continues to have definite applications, especially in the involutional and cyclic depressions, the agitated states of the elderly, the better preserved schizophrenics, and the intractable psychoneuroses, especially when suffering from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.525Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages533–538Based on our results, we feel that all 5 of the antidepressants are effective agents and are generally superior to the amphetamines and phenothiazines in producing remission or relief of primary and secondary symptoms which comprise the depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.533Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages539–545A feasible and effective method has been described for studying a wide range of psychophysiological phenomena under circumstances permitting exceptionally effective isolation and demonstration of discrete elements in the complicated, interconnected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.539Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages547–5481. Mellaril is a smooth acting, efficient therapeutic agent in the treatment of the psychotic patient. 2. Nausea is not masked. 3. Side effects in this study have been negligible. 4. Mellaril proceeds to aid psychotics with their behavioral problems over ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.547Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages549–5501. The use of oral methylphenidate to potentiate interviews in 16 office psychotherapy patients was studied for a period of one year. Results indicate that in patients with fixed neurotic processes it can speed the therapeutic progress. 2. The drug gave ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.549Publication date: 01 December 1960
Pages551-a–552Norethandrolone was effective in controlling bowel and bladder incontinence in 10 of 13 patients who had been hospitalized for periods of from 6 months to 29 years. The most severely incontinent patients at the hospital were chosen for this study. Upon ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.117.6.551-aPublication date: 01 December 1960
Pages555–557In comparing the 4 cases, it is apparent that gasoline sniffing over a prolonged period need not necessarily produce serious organic damage. Pleasant hallucinations appear to be a reward for sniffing gasoline. In two cases, a feeling of omnipotence and ...
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