American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 119
- Number 2
- August 1962
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages97–105The Navy program for psychiatric assessment of personnel wintering over in the Antarctic has been described. During the 5-year history of the assessment program, there have been no documented cases of psychotic illness. Six men have been admitted to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.97Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages106–1151. This is a 5-20 year follow-up report of the course and outcome of 109 patients with pseudoneurotic schizophrenia, 60% seen initially at Psychiatric Institute and 40% in clinics or private practice. 2. About two-fifths of these patients had had previous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.106Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages122–127A pilot study was undertaken to evaluate some quantitative and qualitative aspects of schizophrenics' auditory behavior by means of 5 auditory tests. It was found that schizophrenics displayed completely normal auditory acuity on the pure tone and speech ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.122Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages128–135Quantitative neurochemical changes and the absence of change have been observed in patients in the glycoproteins of one compartment of the nervous system itself, the cerebrospinal fluid, which are temporally related to psychological and behavioral changes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.128Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages144–153The effectiveness of 3 antidepressant medications was compared with that of EST in 128 depressed hospitalized patients at 3 state mental hospitals. The results of this double blind study employing 4 different measures of treatment outcome present a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.144Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages159–163A family is presented in which 5 of 7 siblings and 10 of 17 members of the last 2 generations have had psychotic episodes. At least 5 members have experienced their mental illness in connection with childbirth, and 2 in connection with back injury. It is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.159Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages164–167Forty-four items of a Nurses Behavior Chart used at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital were factor analyzed, based on a sample of 100 schizophrenic patients. Ten orthogonal factors which were extracted indicated the dimensions of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.164Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages170–1711. In a group of 27 chronic schizophrenics chosen randomly, abnormalities in the cerebrospinal fluid protein and gold curve were noted. 2. A statistically significant normalizing effect on these indices occurred when the patients were placed on tri-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.170Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages172–173After three clinical trials, we have been unable to confirm the reported "superior neuroleptic" potential of Haloperidol. A genetic mechanism has been postulated to explain the differences, and this is being explored further(5).
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.172Publication date: 01 August 1962
Pages178-a–179The amount of chlorpromazine was measured in the breast milk of a lactating psychotic woman after 1200 mg. Cpz. was given in a single oral dose. The microgram amounts found were probably insignificant physiologically. Our study suggests that babies of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.2.178-aPast Issues
View Issues Archive
Vol. 181 | No. 9
Vol. 181 | No. 8
Vol. 181 | No. 7
