American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 98
- Number 1
- July 1941
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages33–41A study is reported of 299 cases placed in family care by the Worcester State Hospital during the 5-year period from 1934 to 1938. This period was selected as it represented the time during which special emphasis was being placed on the use of family care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.33Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages42–47This paper presents the thesis that the subnormal should receive much more adequate community care and suggests certain possibilities for increasing the effectiveness of the treatment of this group. This thesis is developed by: (a) A general review of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.42Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages56–62A 49-year-old female suffering from a depression complicated by alcoholism had made several unsuccessful suicidal attempts. In 1937 she became acutely depressed and shot a .25 caliber bullet through both frontal lobes. The bullet is still lodged in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.56Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages63–69There is a syndrome occurring almost exclusively in females, whose pathognomonic sign is internal frontal hyperostosis, and which is generally accompanied by truncal obesity and frequently by facial hirsutism. Certain other metabolic and physiologic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.63Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages70–76In five monkeys, studied after a number of metrazol-induced convulsions it was observed that: 1. Histopathological changes in the central nervous system are not always present. When they occur they are not proportional to the number of convulsions, to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.70Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages77–821. In a group of 13 schizophrenic patients the blood sugar fell more promptly in response to coma doses of amorphous insulin given intravenously than to those given subcutaneously. 2. The fall in blood sugar in response to coma doses of insulin given ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.77Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages83–92Thirty-eight patients in stuporous states or in active psychoses without evident cause showed prompt and often very impressive improvement after treatment with nicotinic acid. The usual criteria for the clinical diagnosis of pellagra or of other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.83Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages93–98We can conclude from the foregoing information that any mental deviation is likely to result in fleeing from the scene of an accident. There is a definite type of malfunction which makes certain types of unstable and otherwise psychopathic people flee ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.93Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages102–109We have presented a partial review of the literature dealing with encephalographic studies of groups of epileptics, together with a summary of our experience with encephalography in 286 institutionalized epileptic patients. From our studies we believe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.102Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages110–118We have presented a study of suicide and escape emergencies occurring in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital during the nine year period from 1930 to 1938 inclusive. During this period there has been a progressive fall not only in actual suicides and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.110Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages119–123The motilograph is an especially valuable measure of physiological rest if not of sleep. Comparisons of motility records with nurses' sleep charts have emphasized some of the objections that may be raised to the latter as an adequate picture of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.119Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages132–1391. Fifty-one women, aged 20 to 55, were given a neuropsychiatric examination before major abdominal surgery, with special reference to anxiety concerning the operation, history of former psychiatric difficulties, marital maladjustment and sources of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.1.132Publication date: 01 July 1941
Pages140–142It is hoped that this report will serve to stimulate further investigations to close the gaps which exist in the knowledge of allergy to insulin, and to emphasize that sensitivity to insulin during shock therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia is not ...
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