American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 97
- Number 3
- November 1940
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages524–5511. Six hundred colorimetric determinations of androgens and estrogens were performed on the urines of 200 individuals. 2. A standard curve for the daily excretion of androgens and a norm for the ratio male: female hormones was established. 3. Of 29 overt ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.524Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages552–565The metabolism of the brain was studied in normal, schizophrenic, paretic and senile subjects, and the effect of alcohol, paraldehyde and morphine was studied. Arterio-venous differences for oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose and lactic acid were determined ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.552Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages566–5721. Twenty-three patients suffering from psychoses occurring within the senium were investigated with regard to their cerebral oxygen consumption. 2. The arterial oxygen was low (16.31 vol. per cent). It is suggested that this is in part due to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.566Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages573–588The levels of bisulfite binding substances (B.B.S.) in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid were studied in 222 patients with neuropsychiatric and medical disorders and the following conclusions reached: 1. The usual range of B.B.S. in the spinal fluid is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.573Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages589–6001. A series of 25 patients with Parkinsonian syndrome, including 15 of the post-encephalitic type, and 10 of the arteriosclerotic or idiopathic type have been treated with the combination of Bulgarian belladonna root (rabellon) and amphetamine (benzedrine)...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.589Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages601–610A. The administration of histamine was followed by slight improvement both in the clinical picture and Rorschach test for the group, particularly in the characteristic catatonics. From the absence of striking change, one might reflect that while histamine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.601Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages623–6321. The importance of migraine equivalents has been indicated with regard to problems of diagnosis in medicine and to the understanding of the nature of migraine. 2. Equivalents may replace migraine entirely and be episodic or continued in form, or may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.623Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages650–658A statistical survey of the problem of malnutrition in chronic psychotic patients reveals the fact that 49.9 per cent of all the patients in the hospital weighed less than the normal weight as outlined by the report of the Medico-Actuarial Mortality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.650Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages667–676Some 320 schizophrenic patients—so diagnosed to the best of our ability—were surveyed physically, neurologically and psychiatrically at least twelve months after the completion of their treatment, in order to establish in so far as possible just what are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.667Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages677–6851. Nitrous oxide anoxia has given good results in the treatment of early cases of schizophrenia. 2. Chronic cases, whose illness was over 2 years in duration were unchanged. 3. It is a relatively safe method in the hands of a skilled anæsthetist. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.677Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages686–6901. A report is given of 102 patients treated with picrotoxin as convulsant. 64 of the patients received a combination of picrotoxin with metrazol. 2. The combined treatment reduces nausea and vomiting to a minimum. Multiple convulsions occurred in two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.686Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages691–6941. The recovery rate of patients having uncomplicated involutional melancholia treated with theelin in our hospital is above 90 per cent. 2. Larger dosages than were originally used by us, are more efficacious and are recommended. 3. In view of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.691Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages703–710-3Five women with exaggerated sex urge were treated with large doses (25 mg.) of testosterone propionate, administered by subcutaneous injection at varying intervals. All patients experienced rather prompt relief which, however, was temporary. In three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.703Publication date: 01 November 1940
Pages711–723Twenty-six cases of mental aberration occurring in a clinic for convulsive disorders are herewith presented. The causes of the psychiatric difficulties are as follows: idiosyncrasy to bromides; alcoholic intoxication; status epilepticus; psychic ...
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