American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 97
- Number 5
- March 1941
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1007–10231. A two-year follow-up study of 1039 cases of dementia præcox treated by the pharmacological shock method in the New York state hospitals is presented and discussed. 2. It is recommended that statistical compilations include all the factors that seem to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1007Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1024–1028This is a study of one hospital working out for itself answers to questions raised by the use of insulin-shock in schizophrenia. At the Pennsylvania Hospital there have been immediate and important gains in one-half of all patients, and in two-thirds of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1024Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1029–1039The study of the results in 50 cases of dementia præcox from six months to two and a half years after insulin shock therapy, with special reference to certain factors considered for their prognostic significance, suggests the following conclusions with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1029Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1040–10601. Convulsive shock therapy has proved most useful as a means of terminating chronic resistant affective psychoses. 2. The usefulness of this therapy has been restricted and has been in danger of abandonment because of the severity of the convulsive shock ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1040Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1061–10721. 100 schizophrenic reactions in soldiers were studied immediately after the onset of psychotic symptoms. 2. Paranoid reactions occurred more frequently than all other reactions combined, followed in order by hebephrenic, unclassified or mixed, catatonic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1061Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1073–10851. An attempt has been made to contrast the symptoms and signs observed in 10 cases of schizophrenia and in 30 cases of regression neuroses. 2. All cases occurred in university students. 3. The impressions resulting from a statistical study would indicate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1073Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1086–1115(1) There must be in the minds of medical men a sharp differentiation between the psychosis involutional melancholia and the benign "menopausal symptoms" common to both females and males at the climacteric. (2) The endocrine factors incident to change of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1086Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1116–11341. Nine affected and two unaffected members of five families in which dystrophia myotonica has occurred were studied psychiatrically in conjunction with other detailed clinical and research investigations at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1116Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1135–1146Two cases have been presented which illustrate two types of pathology which may be encountered in low grade idiocy with microcephaly. The first case represents a developmental arrest with macrogyria and microgyria interna. In its degree of development, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1135Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1147–1157In a study of seven patients with partial and in three with complete section of the corpus callosum, psychobiological changes were noted in only two. In both of these evidence of involvement of the right cerebrum was present. Consequently it appears that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1147Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1158–1174This is an analytical and follow-up study of 250 children of pre- school age, from an observation nursery of a psychiatric division of a city hospital, covering a five-year period. Half of these children were mentally defective, and the majority of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1158Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1175–1187We have used belladonna root extract in the treatment of parkinsonism over a sufficient length of time and in a series of cases sufficiently large for us to draw these conclusions: 1. The mild mental symptoms in most of these patients were materially ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1175Publication date: 01 March 1941
Pages1204–12181. Hypoglycemia leads to a general decrease in cortical activity, measurable by a delay in and an inaccuracy of mental functions. This condition is accompanied by typical changes in the electroencephalogram and in the electrocorticogram which indicate a ...
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