American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 97
- Number 1
- July 1940
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages27–481. A series of experiments was carried out on a group of psychoneurotic patients and of normal controls, in which was studied the effect on the respiration of the administration of a painful stimulus and of its subsequent recall. The changes in minute ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.27Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages49–58In the course of routine autopsy examinations at the Western Washington State Mental Hospital during a two year period, thirty cases of intracranial tumor were found, giving a percentage incidence of 13.5. This figure is so much higher than that of any ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.49Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages80–101(1) Contrary to many previous reports, the majority of the patients of this series were found to have manic-depressive psychoses, a large number were cases of dementia præcox, and only 3.6 per cent were considered to be toxic-exhaustive deliria. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.80Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages102–1351. The handwriting of psychotic patients show definite characteristics. 2. The basic disturbance in the psychotic handwriting is expressed by the drastic disturbance in the dynamic relationship. 3. The fundamental dynamic disturbance finds different ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.102Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages136–151Insulin with carbohydrates seems at this time to be the only method of treating delirium tremens which has improved upon the statistical results reported by Kraepelin, who used diet, support and paraldehyde for rest. Insulin is effective because it ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.136Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages152–1621. The insight of 100 patients discharged from a private sanitarium has been studied. 2. Among those diagnosed as depressions there was a greater proportion of patients who showed good insight on admission than among those with other psychoses. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.152Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages163–166Forty-two male college students were divided into two groups. One group was given 10 mg. of benzedrine sulfate, and the other a placebo at the first session. They were then given a form of the Otis self-administering tests of mental ability (higher form). ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.163Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages167–1881. One hundred cases of dementia paralytica treated at the Worcester State Hospital between the years 1925-1938 were studied to determine criteria useful in the prognosis. An inquiry into the cause of failure of one-half to two-thirds of paretics to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.167Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages189–213An analogy is frequently drawn between schizophrenic and child thinking. In order to check the validity of such analogy, verbal productions from protocols of fifteen normal children of pre- school age (two to five years) and three schizophrenic children (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.189Publication date: 01 July 1940
Pages214–225Twenty-five schizophrenic patients and 10 normal subjects were used in an experiment on reaction time employing preparatory intervals of 1, 2, 4, 7.5, 15 and 25 seconds in length. Two procedures were used. In the regular warning procedure each particular ...
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