American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 97
- Number 4
- January 1941
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages805–8111. Progress in attaining the objectives of a mental hygiene component in a city health district is reported. 2. The 1933 survey indicates that 25 per cent of all psychotics in the district are not hospitalized. 3. Personality disorder of varying severity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.805Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages812–8301. Symptoms of psychic disorders were found with few exceptions in a series of 205 cases of neoplasm of the brain. 2. The mental disorders with brain tumors are essentially similar to those found with other types of organic psychoses and range in severity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.812Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages831–843Many cases which were originally diagnosed as manic-depressives were subsequently reclassified as schizophrenia. Review of New York State and Federal statistics for other states show: (a) Marked fluctuation in the number of manic-depressives as compared ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.831Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages844–857No adequate explanation can be offered by us for the occurrence of prolonged non-hypoglycemic coma in the six cases reported. Intensive treatment with thiamin chloride, nicotinic acid and with riboflavin failed to terminate the coma. Nicotinic acid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.844Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages858–877In this paper the importance of constancy in the internal environment for the stability and well being of the organism as a whole and the cerebral cortex in particular has been emphasized. Numerous illustrations were cited from studies at high altitude to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.858Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages894–9031. The nystagmic reaction to caloric stimulation under the influence of alcohol, increased CO2 tension and decreased CO2 tension has been studied in schizophrenic and normal persons. 2. Under these experimental conditions, the schizophrenic patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.894Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages905–9181. Replacement therapy should be preceded by a careful pre- and post-operative personality study and prolonged observation. 2. Psychotherapy alone may enhance sexual expression in castrates—as was strikingly demonstrated in a woman patient. 3. In a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.905Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages919–9431. Eighteen men who complained of impotence and who had no obvious disease of the central nervous system, no marked structural changes in the genito-urinary tract except for absence of spermatozoa in Case 4, or no manifest deficiency in the internal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.919Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages944–9541. Experiments are briefly cited in which in narcotized cats, the hypothalamus was stimulated and the contraction of the nictitating membrane on the same side recorded. In addition to this the cephalad end of the cervical sympathetic was stimulated on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.944Publication date: 01 January 1941
Pages955–9681. Of 1,932 mental patients who formed the male population of Eloise Hospital on February 15, 1940, 130 or 6.7 per cent were found to be sex delinquents. 2. Fourteen or 10.8 per cent of the group of 130 patients were actual sex offenders before the ...
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