American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 122
- Number 10
- April 1966
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1102–1109Of 173 voluntary patients followed after discharge, data were obtained regarding outcome patterns during the first two years on 156. Nine postdischarge patterns were isolated. Over-all, 29 percent had outcomes considered good, 29 percent were equivocal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1102Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1109–1116In this study, 618 suicidal veteran patients were followed up for a period of one month to 14½ years, averaging 4.6 years. Of these, 615 were successfully traced. Twenty-one of these (3.4 percent), all males, had committed suicide. By computation of man-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1109Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1116–1121The case histories of two groups of schizophrenic patients with markedly different outcomes on follow-up were studied by one of us who did not know the outcomes. Of the 54 factors of possible prognostic significance that could be scored as present or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1116Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1125–1131An effort has been made to present a useful structural and practical view of two open heterogeneous outpatient groups involving 29 psychotic and borderline military wives. Fourteen patients (48.3 percent) were diagnosed as schizophrenic; six (20.7 percent)...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1125Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1139–1146The goals and the treatment plan for the obsessional states have been outlined as follows: 1) To discover and elucidate the basis for the excessive feelings of insecurity which require absolute guarantees before action is pursued. 2) To demonstrate by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1139Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1165–1171The OIT has led the author to conclude that the human brain can better be understood and treated as a cross-correlation pattern recognition system in the cybernetic sense. With this view, he has attempted to unify the diverse phenomena of chromaphilia, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1165Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1174–1178RNA, extracted from the brain of rats trained to approach a food cup in response to a click, did not influence the behavior of untrained rats when injected intraperitoneally.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1174Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1178–1181An attempt to integrate day-care patients on the general psychiatric wards of our hospital has been unsatisfactory, as evidenced by the fact that of the first 40 patients admitted, 21 were unable to continue on day-care status to discharge. Reasons for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1178Publication date: 01 April 1966
Pages1185–1188A clinical trial of alpha-methyldopa (Aldomet) in elated states is reported. Four drug trials were conducted in three "manic" patients at dosage levels up to 6 gms. per day. No therapeutic effect was noted, although a pharmacologic effect as evidenced by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1185