American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 122
- Number 4
- October 1965
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages361–366Conceptual (or cognitive) psychiatry—a field which has so far been relatively neglected-is described in three of its major branches. The importance of conceptual life in the psychodynamics of the human being has been reaffirmed. Man is not motivated only ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.361Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages402–404After 24 nights of study on hydranencephalic infants and their controls, it was concluded that REMs occur in hydranencephaly. Thus it is also concluded that although a cortex is not needed, the eye movements may be needed and thus may be associated with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.402Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages419–424Seven psychotic children in the diagnostic categories of early infantile autism or childhood schizophrenia and six nonpsychotic children were studied during total nights of spontaneous sleep. The electroencephalogram, eye movements, heart rate, heart rate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.419Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages436–439A detailed analysis of the parole records of 116 parolees indicated that the men who received a diagnosis of alcoholism had significantly higher criminal recidivism rates than did the nonalcoholics.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.436Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages457–458No treatment has yet been devised that can cure all forms of depression or even all patients with any single type of depressive reaction. This pilot study revealed that prednisone was effective in ameliorating only the components of affective disorder in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.457Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages462–463Haloperidol appears to be an effective tranquilizer in schizophrenic reactions accompained by paranoid symptomatology, and in other mental illnesses where paranoid symptoms are prominent. Extrapyramidal tract symptoms occurred, but were easily controlled ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.462Publication date: 01 October 1965
Pages472-c–472In our July issue, the editorial "Some Notes on the History of the Journal, Its Editors and the Silver Pitcher" referred to Dr., Richard Bucks as a former President of the American Psychiatric Association. The reference should have been to Dr. Richard M. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.4.472-c