American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 96
- Number 5
- March 1940
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1023–1027In 227 of 267 patients previously refractory to other forms of therapy, sodium diphenyl hydantoinate has been found to be an effective, non-sedative and relatively non-toxic means of controlling or reducing convulsive seizures over periods varying from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1023Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1029–10341. A comparative study of the effectiveness of phenobarbital and dilantin-sodium on a group of chronic epileptics whose average duration of illness has been 15.6 years was undertaken. While phenobarbital has proven beneficial in most cases, the best ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1029Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1035–1041A follow-up study was made at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital of 165 non-luetic psychotic patients in whom the spinal fluid contained abnormalities. The patients were followed for an average period of three years. (1) In six, or 4 per cent, the abnormal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1035Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1043–1061In five clinically and serologically typical cases of dementia paralytica, there developed features strongly suggestive of manic-depressive or schizophrenic psychoses. Long-section studies of the cases pointed to the conclusion that these features were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1043Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1063–1087A case is presented in which the anterior-inferior portions of both frontal lobes were removed in 1934. The present (1939) functional activity of the remaining frontal structures is not definitely known but the nutrition of the tissue seemed not to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1063Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1105–11161. Two cases of myxedema associated with psychosis are presented: in one, recovery seemed definitely dependent on thyroid medication, and in the other it did not. 2. Even in elderly and apparently senile individuals with myxedema, caution is needed in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1105Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1117–1124The standardization of this scale is not considered to be adequate. The number of cases is too small and the sampling is limited to the high grade moron and borderline levels of intelligence and to children in an institutional environment. It was possible,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1117Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1125–1152Brain potentials can be used within limits as an index of the action of cerebral neurones. The recorded waves are the envelope of the beats of many single neurones and their profile depends on the shape of the unit potential and the temporal relation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1125Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1153–1165The method used and general observations made during insulin shock treatment of schizophrenia are discussed. From November, 1936, to March, 1939, 76 cases of schizophrenia were treated; 56 of them finished the complete course of therapy, the remaining 20 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1153Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1167–1190The writer has attempted to describe the symptoms of the insulin effect and their relationship to the time and the dose. Striving to apply pathological experiences for clinical purposes, it is necessary to adapt them for pharmacological use. We are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1167Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1203–1211Three hundred fifteen schizophrenic patients treated during a period of almost three years showed 72 per cent recoveries and 10 per cent social remissions in cases with a duration of psychosis less than seven months, 35 per cent and 20 per cent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.5.1203Publication date: 01 March 1940
Pages1213–12261. The clinical and post-mortem findings in an unusual case of Cushing's syndrome are described. There existed in this patient a depressive psychosis and an extrapyramidal neurologic disorder, the overt development of both being associated temporally with ...
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