American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 98
- Number 3
- November 1941
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages324–333The clinical diagnosis of senile and arteriosclerotic psychoses is discussed on the basis of observations in 60 anatomically verified cases. Senile psychoses tend to occur at a later age and are apt to last longer than arteriosclerotic psychoses. In the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.324Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages334–3391. Narcolepsy is a borderline syndrome common to cases of both functional and organic brain disease. 2. The pathogenesis is the same in both cases and consists of the release of a primitive type of sleep mechanism. 3. Narcoleptic sleep is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.334Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages340–346An attempt has been made to evaluate critically the results of nutritional and, more particularly, vitamin studies, as they relate to the clinical syndromes of delirium tremens, the Korsakoff psychosis, Wernicke's syndrome and the various cerebral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.340Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages354–3591. Adrenalin, caffeine and cocaine, in high concentrations in the dextrose substrate, inhibit oxygen uptake, whereas nicotine has no such effect. 2. Picrotoxin, prostigmine and tyramine when injected subcutaneously into the rat, tend to increase brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.354Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages360–368On the basis of a critical survey of the literature, the following conclusions are drawn concerning the significance of the various criteria of prognosis in schizophrenia: The prognosis is most favorable when the duration of illness is short; the type of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.360Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages369–3731. The frequency of occurrence of the insulin convulsion in the published material, if not prevented, is established as being from 2.4 per cent at the lowest to 4.1 per cent at the highest level, relative to the number of shock days. 2. Convulsions in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.369Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages374–3811. The EEG. tracings from 500 schizophrenic patients are compared with the records from 215 normal controls. A significantly greater percentage of borderline and abnormal records was found in the schizophrenic patients. 2. A greater percentage of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.374Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages385–392Using hypothalamic and cortical leads electroencephalographic studies in schizophrenics give the following preliminary results. 1. Reaction to external cold is deficient in that no reactive hyperthermia results and little electrical activity in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.385Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages393–396Evidence has been presented that certain EKG changes which occur during the course of insulin shock therapy are not due to the administration of insulin, per se, but are due to the fact that large amounts of glucose, a vitamin free substance, are used to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.393Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages397–400The method of modification of the metrazol seizure by beta-erythroidin hydrochloride used by other investigators is here applied to the treatment of schizophrenic children, in whom the incidence of fractures sustained by unmodified metrazol convulsions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.397Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages401–403Ten patients, nine classified as schizophrenic and one as manic-depressive, were given standard and other memory tests before, during and after a full course of from ten to sixteen grand mal convulsions induced electrically in four instances and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.401Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages404–408Some correlation exists between the EEG findings and the clinical status of the patient in cases of general paresis, senile psychosis, psychosis with cerebral arteriosclerosis and alcoholic psychosis, Korsakoff type. This relationship is by no means an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.404Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages409–414In two epileptics with "psychic equivalents" no change in behavior during the convulsive-free periods or in the equivalent state was observed following partial or complete section of the corpus callosum. In one epileptic with a chronic invalid reaction no ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.409Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages422–429This paper attempts to illustrate a method of quantitatively assessing certain psychological, psychiatric and physiological changes occurring in a group of schizophrenic patients, before, during and after insulin shock therapy. These changes have been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.422Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages430–433Thae EEGs of 81 manic-depressive patients of whom 52 were diagnosed as manic-depressive depressed (MDD), 22 as manic-depressive manic (MDM), and 7 as manic-depressive mixed (MD mixed) were recorded and analyzed. Findings reveal that there is very little ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.430Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages434–446In this study, the writer has attempted to discuss and summarize the difficulties involved in reporting results of psychoanalytic therapy, presenting the valid and invalid reasons usually involved in preventing the publication of therapeutic results, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.434Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages447–450In this paper we have presented five cases of mental abnormality of various types in one identical twin. We have attempted to show that because of the identical heredity in monozygotic twins the study of cases of this type is of importance in showing the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.3.447Publication date: 01 November 1941
Pages455–458From this study it appears that sibling position plays no important part in the development of schizophrenia. There is some evidence to show that the stress to which the middle child is subjected may increase the incidence of the disorder in children ...
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