American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 98
- Number 6
- May 1942
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages795–800Some essential differences between the viewpoints of the civilian and army psychiatrists have been presented. Some of the problems and regulations which must be considered in interpreting literature that will be forthcoming concerning army psychiatry are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.795Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages801–814A follow-up study of 208 manic-depressive conditions is reported. Analysis of such conditions permits the following summary. Positive heredity is common—chiefly depressions, and more commonly in the direct line of heredity. This shows more consistently in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.801Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages815–8221. The issue of hypochondriasis has been confused through its identification, on one hand, with somatic delusions in psychoses and, on the other, with any and all somatic disorders of functional origin. This study supports the thesis that there exists a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.815Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages823–8271. Quantitative vitamin C studies done on mental patients reveal levels considerably lower than normal. 2. These low levels have been, at least partially, traced to the low vitamin C allowances in most institutional diets but undoubtedly also on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.823Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages857–8621. Postural reactions to caloric stimulation of the vestibular organ were measured in a group of 20 chronic schizophrenic patients and in a group of 20 normal persons. The blind-folded subjects were instructed to mark time in place, and the reaction was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.857Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages863–8731. Coma due to administered insulin does not generally occur while the blood sugar drops. 2. The blood sugar remains at about the same level after the lowest point has been reached throughout the coma. 3. Following the termination of the insulin coma, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.863Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages874–880The Gardner behavior chart is a rating scale consisting of 15 categories, each of which is subdivided into a five point scale. It was developed directly out of work with psychotic patients at the Gardner State Hospital and is designed to be scored from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.874Publication date: 01 May 1942
Pages881–902Acute, intermittent and recurrent convulsive seizures have been induced in monkeys by the application of discs containing various immunologically and chemically active substances to the cerebral cortex overlying the motor area. Acute seizures were either ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.6.881