American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 98
- Number 5
- March 1942
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages633–637There has recently arisen among certain psychiatrists a tendency to stress unduly the role of the hypothalamus as a dynamic "source" of emotion and even of "drive" or instinct. A critical evaluation of the evidence, however, reveals the following: 1. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.633Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages638–6441. The literature relative to "sham rage" is reviewed. 2. Two cases of "sham rage" in human beings are presented; one following insulin hypoglycemia, the other following carbon monoxide poisoning. In both cases, the involvement of higher centers is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.638Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages650–655The case is reported of an adult male patient, who, in the course of prolonged use of excessive doses of ergotamine given by the intravenous route, developed a severe condition characterized by profound mental confusion and tonic and clonic spasms, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.650Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages668–672The effect of sniffles on the central nervous system is difficult to evaluate. We are also at a loss to explain the peculiar changes of the pulmonary vessels. We were unable to find any references in the literature pertaining to this condition. Congestion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.668Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages680–683The use of benzedrine sulphate in the treatment of a series of 24 general hospital patients all suffering from severe chronic alcoholism and alcoholic addiction yielded poor results. Some of the possible reasons for these results have been discussed.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.680Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages684–6891. The thymopathic factor (manic-depressive constitutional tendency) is one among a number of other dynamic factors in the production of manic-depressive and allied psychoses rather than representing an independent disease entity. 2. Although hereditary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.684Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages703–707A survey of the literature reveals that the present state of our knowledge of the schizophrenic reaction in non-literate societies is as inadequate as our knowledge of comparative psychopathology in general. This inadequacy becomes apparent when one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.703Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages716–719A physically healthy young woman who suffered from a prolonged attack of mania increasing in severity, died a sudden clinically unexplained death. Post-mortem examination revealed a circumscribed glioma (spongioblastoma polare) in the right diencephalo-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.716Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages720–726Brain tumor is found at necropsy in from 3.5 per cent, 6.7 per cent to 13.5 per cent in state hospital material. Brain tumor may occur in a patient with a major psychosis in which instance it is not necessarily the cause of psychotic symptoms but will ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.720Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages727–732The term "rheumatic epilepsy" has been suggested for patients who develop convulsions following rheumatic fever or chorea, and for epileptic persons with chronic rheumatic cardiovalvular disease. The fundamental process in the brain of these patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.727Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages733–739Reports concerning approximately 1900 extramural patients have been analyzed with respect to the present mental state of these patients and the determining influence of heredity on their mentality. Among these patients 64 per cent were mentally normal and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.733Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages740–7441. The sound film has a number of definite advantages as an adjunct to psychiatric teaching. Selection of case material can be improved, waste of time in teaching hours reduced, discussion can be free without harm to the patient, significant points can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.740Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages745–7491. The histories of 70 thyroidectomized patients admitted to the Milwaukee Sanitarium in 16¼ years were studied. Clinical data regarding age, sex, residence, occupation, facts before and after thyroidectomy, including Sanitarium residence, are presented. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.745Publication date: 01 March 1942
Pages757–766Eight cases of typical pyknolepsy are presented. Four of these ceased spontaneously during the period of observation. Clinically they were similar to petit mal epilepsy except for the mildness of their symptoms, the fairly monotonous course, their lack of ...
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