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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 120
  • Number 9
  • March 1964

Article

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages861–869

Clinical. 1. Two hundred psychiatric patients were treated with chlorpromazine from the start of an initial trial of the drug in 1953 and followed until they had a remission, discontinued, or continued in maintenance therapy. Efficacy in the series ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.861

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages870–874

A series of 103 patients with psychoneurotic or psychotic disorders, most of whom had been under treatment for a long period, were given diazepam (Valium) for periods ranging up to a year. The usual dosage was 5 mg. t.i.d. but the daily intake was adapted ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.870

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages875–877

Considering the 87 cases without epilepsy or deterioration, we have found an abnormal or borderline EEG in 55% of this series of psychopathic personality. The type of abnomality is not specific, but has been seen in post-traumatic cases, adolescents and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.875

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages878–881

A study of 117 patients with "organic brain" syndrome seen in consultation over a 4-year period indicated that this syndrome is associated with a poor prognosis. A high mortality rate, frequent subsequent psychiatric hospitalization, and frequent dementia ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.878

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages882–886

This study reports on the clinical experience with a group of mothers with were unique. 2. The patients encouraged infanticidal impulses. The 4 shared, biographical characteristics found were: 1. They have strong feelings of resentment toward their ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.882

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages887–889

Since the military health record is a permanent one which has many uses and which will go through many hands, the question of what the psychiatrist should record is an important one. This article has discussed a rationale for psychiatric recordkeeping ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.887

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages890–893

We have described briefly some results of an experiment in which a patient-centered nursing approach was found to be effective in helping patients being admitted to a mental hospital. We believe admission is a crucial time for the patient, and therefore a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.890

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages897–899

The evaluation of antidepressant medication in an office practice setting is complicated by the somewhat unpredictable course of the illness, the long time interval before medications can become effective, and by the difficulty in weighing subjective ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.897

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages899–900

The value of phenoxypropazine in reactive depressions with prominent anxiety was investigated by comparing the effect of phenoxypropazine plus chlordiazepoxide with that of chlordiazepoxide alone on 60 outpatients. The outcome of patients on the combined ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.899

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages900–902

This study indicates that Quide is a useful addition to the armamentarium of the physician faced with the difficult problem of treating the chronic hospitalized patient with a schizophrenic illness. Side effects of the drug were generally mild, and there ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.900

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages903–904

Evaluation of the scales on severity of convulsions revealed a significant difference between anectine-Na pentothal on the one hand and diazepam and placebo on the other hand. Even with the highest doses of diazepam, the convulsions were as severe as with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.903

Publication date: 01 March 1964

Pages905–906

Our conclusion is that methotrimeprazine is clinically useful in controlling marked disturbances of behavior in psychotic patients when administered muscularly. It is more hypnotic than chlorpromazine, and it is possibly less anti-psy-chotic. But it is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.9.905

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