American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 91
- Number 5
- March 1935
ARTICLE
Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages969–981An attempt was made to estimate the significance of more or less marked hyperthyroidism in 70 psychoneurotic and psychotic patients. Two problems were discussed: (a) The rôle of hyperthyroidism in the etiology and pathogenesis of psychoses; (b) The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.969Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages1009–1017A preliminary report is made of the metabolic and therapeutic effects of 2:4 dinitrophenol and 3:5 dinitro-ortho-cresol administered consecutively to 10 schizophrenic patients. Both drugs caused increase in the rate of oxygen consumption with various ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1009Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages1019–1031The average urinary output in a series of 92 male schizophrenic patients was 2532 cc., that of 26 presumably healthy control subjects 1328 cc. Restrictions of water intake to about 1900 cc. of water both as such and in food in 10 of the patients with very ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1019Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages1033–1050The distribution of calcium between blood and cerebrospinal fluid was investigated in 400 cases of mental disorder. Five hundred and twenty-three determinations of the ratio of blood to spinal fluid calcium were made. In addition, 480 determinations of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1033Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages1079–10881. The investigation showed that many etiological factors may underlie the production of amnesia and loss of identity. 2. In the 104 cases studied, the great classifications were organic brain disease, functional mental disease, the psychoneuroses, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1079Publication date: 01 March 1935
Pages1161–1165It is proposed to select two groups of mental patients, each member of each group to be matched as nearly as possible with respect to age, sex, intellect, diagnosis, socio-economic status, etc., with a member of a second group. Both groups are to receive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1161Publication date: 01 March 1935
Page1196Dr. Neil A. Dayton calls attention to the following corrections to be made in his article: Influence of Size of Family upon the Characteristics of the Mentally Deficient, which appeared in the January, 1935, number of the Journal. Page 800, third line ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.91.5.1196