American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 97
- Number 6
- May 1941
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1272–1287Of a group of 100 cases seen in psychiatric consultation in the wards of a general hospital, only 12 per cent had mental conditions that could be considered the direct result of organic disease. Fifty-one per cent of the patients were found to have some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1272Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1301–13121. Light stimuli affect the alpha rhythm according to the "all or none" law. 2. Light stimuli have a delayed reaction time in short petit-mal attacks. 3. Light stimuli are not perceived in long petit-mal attacks. 4. Both light and sound stimuli tend to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1301Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1313–1325A quick, objective, self-administering scale for measuring intellectual impairment has been described. It requires but 20 minutes to give and 2 minutes to score, and is adapted to group, as well as individual use. It consists of a vocabulary and an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1313Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1341–13641. The Rorschach findings in ten cases of acute mild alcoholic intoxication at a predetermined clinical level are given. 2. Rorschach findings at this level are experimentally shown to validate certain previous theoretical or empirical findings as regards ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1341Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1365–1373Internal environment and overt behavior present a reciprocal relation, for the constancy of the body's composition and function depends on behavior for its maintenance, and behavior in turn depends on the body's contents and physiological states. With ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1365Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1374–1396Considering the experimental results obtained it is evident that all too often we must rely on rather casual observations, and that the number of experiments planned to determine relationship between behavior and shifts in acid-base equilibrium is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1374Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1397–1402A study was made of 37 schizophrenic patients in an attempt to discover factors related to their response to insulin shock treatment. Of good prognostic significance were found to be: 1. The presence of atypical schizophrenia. 2. The presence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1397Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1406–14181. A series of observations carried out on clinical material seems to justify the delimitation of a clinical picture for which the name of senile encephalomyelosis is suggested. 2. The symptoms of senile encephalomyelosis are acute or sub- acute mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1406Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1419–14331. Statistically significant criteria distinguishing good, guarded and poor prognoses from each other were determined on the basis of the clinical records of 1,036 drug addicts admitted to the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital at Lexington, Kentucky, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.6.1419Publication date: 01 May 1941
Pages1434–1442One or more types of hallucinations were experienced by 96 out of a group of 458 cases of supratentorial brain tumor. Formed auditory hallucinations were related predominantly to temporal lobe lesions, though the frontal and parietal were also involved. ...
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