American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 98
- Number 4
- January 1942
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages475–481The most striking features in this study have been the importance of the individual and the extension of the effects of the conflict for years after its original use as well as the extension to new systems later during the life of the dog. The most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.475Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages482–488The cases so briefly cited above represent only a few of the endless variations in personally and character found within the state school. It may be said that clinical study of the mentally defective in state schools reveals one series of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.482Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages489–493Brain metabolism of cretins was studied before and after the administration of desiccated thyroid. Blood was collected from an artery and the internal jugular vein and analyzed for oxygen. Cerebral blood flow was estimated with the aid of a thermostromuhr ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.489Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages494–4981. Electroencephalographic examinations were performed on 28 children who had been brought before the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York. 2. In 61 per cent of the entire group, the brain potentials suggested an underlying disorder in brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.494Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages499–5031. Twenty boys committed to a state training school for delinquents were studied by the electroencephalographic method. 2. Seventeen of these twenty have yielded abnormal records. 3. Of the seventeen abnormal records three suggested petit mal epilepsy, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.499Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages504–508This paper deals with the attitudes that the psychiatric and social work professions have towards each other. One notices an attempt on the part of the social workers to avoid the criticism of the psychiatrists by formulating an artificial distinction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.504Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages515–5231. We believe that, at the present time, dilantin sodium is the most effective single preparation available in the treatment of the convulsive manifestations of epilepsy. 2. Although toxic manifestations are frequent and sometimes severe, careful clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.515Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages524–5321. Twenty-two psychotic patients have been subjected to frontal lobotomy. Of sixteen agitated depressions twelve recovered sufficiently to live in their own homes, and continue to live at home in a relatively satisfactory degree of emotional adjustment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.524Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages533–5371. The considerable percentage of vertebral fractures in the middorsal region during metrazol convulsions can be reduced to a great extent by appropriate chemical or, better, simple mechanical means. 2. Reexamination of eight patients who had severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.533Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages538–5431. Comparing films of the spine taken before and after treatment in a series of 200 metrazol-treated cases, a fracture incidence of 23 per cent was found. 2. Fractures were found more frequently in males (28.6 per cent) than in females (19 per cent). 3. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.538Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages551–5571. A study of 100 psychoneurotic men patients admitted to the New York Hospital, Westchester Division, between 1927 and 1937 has been made. 2. Review of the family background revealed that these individuals predominantly came from close-knit, small ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.551Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages567–573Observations were made on 817 menstrual bleedings of 221 patients suffering from schizophrenic and affective disorders. A more detailed study has been made in 31 cases by an analysis of the vaginal smears. A greater irregularity in menstrual interval than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.567Publication date: 01 January 1942
Pages574–580My own observations and a study of the literature point to a general agreement, in regard to certain factors, among those working on the problem of infantile convulsions and their relation to subsequent neuro-psychiatric disorders. 1. Convulsions repeated ...
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