American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 96
- Number 1
- July 1939
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages59–64Descriptions of epilepsy in the literature have been written mainly by men working in institutions who had access only to institutionalized patients. Consequently, reports on epilepsy are based almost exclusively on deteriorated, incarcerated patients. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.59Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages65–68The frequency of seizures has heretofore been reported mainly in institutional deteriorated patients. A study of the frequency of seizures in a group of 317 non-institutional, non-deteriorated patient with epilepsy discloses that seizures are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.65Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages77–[86]-8(1) The ganglion cell disease of amaurotic idiocy is characterized by demineralization, that of tuberous sclerosis by hypermineralization of the cytoplasm. In this respect the ganglion cell disease of amaurotic idiocy aligns itself with other degenerative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.77Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages109–1271. The literature on those studies describing cerebral damage in hypoglycemia is reviewed. 2. Four sources of material underly this study—namely, insulin shock in diabetics, spontaneous hypoglycemia secondary to neoplasm or functional overactivity of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.109Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages147–1641. The scores obtained with a set of three "life situation tests" in an unselected group of 233 patients correlate closely with the average length of residence in the community. No correlation was found in the manic-depressive group of patients. 2. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.147Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages165–1751. Attention is called to a roentgenographic syndrome of hemilateral cerebral hypoplasia and atrophy with concomitant increase of thickness of the skull and enlargement of the head sinuses which occurs in certain convulsive states. 2. Nine cases are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.165Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages177–181Nystagmus and other involuntary eye movements are a constant feature of insulin shock. During the course of shock these reactions undergo a constant and progressive series of changes which have a distinct relation to the depth of induced coma, as judged ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.177Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages183–1911. Various motor phenomena bearing little resemblance to the typical grand mal epileptic seizure or to the usual description of the seizure induced by metrazol occasionally occur. 2. The possible dangers from protracted tonic reactions secondary to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.183Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages193–204This report is concerned with a pharmacologic and metabolic study of metrazol convulsive therapy in human subjects. It was found that the level of serum calcium and potassium remained almost unchanged before and after convulsive seizures. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.193Publication date: 01 July 1939
Pages205–211Of tremendous assistance in the difficult campaign of serving adoption of this reform measure were the New York Psychiatric Society; New York Neurological Society; New York State mental hygiene commissioner, Dr. William J. Tiffany; and his predecessor in ...
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