American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 96
- Number 3
- November 1939
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages535–549In this paper we have discussed the present status of teaching and research in state hospitals. We have outlined the teaching programs in various state hospitals and have attempted to evaluate these programs. We have discussed research in state hospitals ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.535Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages589–594The problem of acute alcoholism in a large psychiatric service is considered. Metrazol was given intravenously in "subconvulsive" doses and found to be efficacious in the treatment of certain types of alcoholic intoxication. The result with metrazol in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.589Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages595–607The literature on psychoses associated with epilepsy has been reviewed. Twenty-two personal cases are described. Fourteen had clouded states, which were found to be transitory obscurings of consciousness of varying depths, developing some years after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.595Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages609–622We have discussed four varieties of sensitivity which have the common denominator of a "considerable degree of emotionally charged impressibility." This we consider the essence of sensitivity. Sensitivity is experienced in different ways by the individual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.609Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages643–655Encouraging results from a year's experience in the treatment of schizophrenia in a small group of patients by nitrogen inhalation therapy have been noted. The methods and technique employed have been described. The landmarks of treatment and the signs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.643Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages657–671Some of the physiological and biochemical changes characteristically associated with the various specific stages of the convulsions produced by the intravenous injection of metrazol have been studied in unanæsthetized rabbits. The changes in the heart-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.657Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages673–679A follow-up study six months after discharge from the hospital of 37 patients who had shown affective disorders shows 41 per cent as greatly improved and 76 per cent definitely improved. Of 19 cases diagnosed involutional melancholia, 15, or 78 per cent, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.673Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages681–688A group of 100 patients of the predominantly chronic type of schizophrenia, equally divided by sex, underwent a course of hypoglycemic shock treatment while 69 patients—36 men and 33 women—were observed as controls. Fifteen other patients, eight men and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.681Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages689–6971. Though the average blood sugar curve in 26 patients given a glucose tolerance test was within normal limits, only six of the individual curves were within normal limits. 2. The blood sugar curve obtained in the insulin tolerance test in these 26 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.689Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages701–7041. A case of atypical psychosis is presented. 2. Diagnosis of subclinical type of pellagra—mental type—is made retrospectively after coramine (nicotinic acid) therapy resulted in a dramatic recovery.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.701Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages711–7161. Seventy-one cases of hysterical amnesia are reviewed; 41 were male, 30 female; the age distribution showed that most cases occur in the third and fourth decades of life. 2. Marital rifts and unfortunate love affairs are the most frequently recurring ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.711Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages717–722-2A case of the Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome with all of its classical symptoms is presented. This is the first report of this syndrome in conjunction with a psychosis.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.3.717Publication date: 01 November 1939
Pages723–731Seven cases of porencephaly are presented from a psychiatric point of view. Patients with lesions in the frontal lobes seemed to present a slightly different picture from that of patients with lesions in other parts of the brain. The group, however, did ...
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