American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 95
- Number 5
- March 1939
ARTICLE
Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1007–1025Electroencephalograms of 232 patients in mental hospitals, including 180 unselected cases at McLean Hospital and 52 chronic schizophrenics at Metropolitan State Hospital, have been studied since October, 1936. The fundamental patterns of these patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1007Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1027–1033A case of mental deterioration has been described which showed essentially the picture of a frontal lobe disturbance simulating Pick's disease. Radiography revealed extensive symmetrical calcification in the cerebral cortex. Neuropathological examination ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1027Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1035–10381. Ten schizophrenic male patients were given large doses of synthetic vitamin B1 orally and intravenously for a period of eight weeks. 2. None showed clinical improvement that could be correlated with the medication. No deleterious effects were seen. 3. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1035Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1127–11371. Sixty-two patients were studied in whom organic disease of the central nervous system was probably induced, at least in part, by metabolic deficiency. Mental symptoms were present in 25 of these cases. 2. The deficiency is termed a "neurometabolic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1127Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1139–1142Twelve sets of triplets, comprising 33 surviving and three stillborn individuals, were incidentally included, along with over a thousand pairs of twins, collected for the purpose of a study of the etiology of mental disorders. The twins and triplets were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1139Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1181–11921. Analysis of the psychometric determinations in 78 cases of general paresis shows that the change in intelligence quotient following treatment is relatively small in the majority of the cases, but there is a little greater likelihood for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1181Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1205–1213The foregoing group of 11 deteriorated patients, suffering from chronic schizophrenia, who have been ill an average of 12.1 years and whose average hospitalization is over ten years, have shown the changes as recorded after three months' treatment with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.5.1205Publication date: 01 March 1939
Pages1215–1225A 16-year-old boy shows somatically a diffuse cerebral process. With a mental retardation of 5 years 9 months, a retardation in reading of 4 years 5 months and in arithmetic of 6 years 8 months, this boy has a definite defect in the finger schema. In ...
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