American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 120
- Number 2
- August 1963
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages105–111Anti-mental health trends are manifestations of an ideological struggle under way in the United States in recent years. "Right-wing" groups in the name of "patriotism" have been attacking various aspects of our democratic process. Psychiatry and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.105Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages112–117We have seen in our survey that our current search for a drug that will calm without sedating is not in any sense new. Over the centuries opium has been used as a tranquilizer and also for its effect as a hypnotic. It was used throughout the spectrum of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.112Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages149–154In recent years increasing attention has focused on the effect social class has on the clinical picture of various mental disorders as well as the relation of the social class of the psychiatrist to the social class of the patient. Often there has been a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.149Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages173–174This preliminary evaluation indicated that a simple questionnaire, which was independent of educational and cultural background, would give a useful quantitative assessment of intellectual impairment in elderly hospitalized patients; and certain features ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.173Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages176–177Perphenazine was used to treat 300 psychotic patients. The dosage usually ranged between 16 and 4 mg. three times daily, for 1 to 9 months. Remission or significant improvement occurred among 80% of first-admission patients and among 70% of those who had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.176Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages177–179A group of 13 enuretic children was studied in an attempt to specify an antienuretic effect to imipramine. Organic disease was ruled out and safeguards were established for prompt recognition of drug reactions. A double-blind study was made, with children ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.177Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages179–180Forty-seven mentally disturbed, severely underweight female patients, ranging in age from 15 to 86 years, were treated for an average of 45.55 days with the anabolic agent, methandrostenolone. All patients showed an increase in weight for a group average ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.179Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages182–185A case of acanthrocytosis with mild neurological symptoms but associated with a characteristic acute paranoid schizophrenic reaction following but not necessarily the result of oestrogen therapy is reported and some observations made.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.182Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages185–186Bilateral peroneal nerve palsy, agranulocytosis, and hepato-toxicity following imipramine administration, with improvement after cessation of the drug, were observed. Laboratory tests seemed to rule out other possible sources of the symptoms noted. The 5 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.185Publication date: 01 August 1963
Pages186–187An unusual syndrome with impairment of speech, generalized tremor, hyperactive DTR's, persistent clonus, and equivocal Babinski reflexes is reported with combined imipramine-thorazine therapy.
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