American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 99
- Number 1
- July 1942
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages42–54Authors have gone to great lengths to protect the saints from the accusation of hysteria. The complete identification of modern with medieval hysteria, the stigma attached to modern hysteria and other psychogenic disturbances, caused this vigorous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.42Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages55–601. Dilantin treatment is accompanied by a decrease of serum-proteins. 2. The decrease corresponds quantitatively to the therapeutic effect. 3. There is a diminution of total protein in the blood serum. It is not equal in all fractions of the proteins, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.55Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages61–741. A positive conditional salivary reflex to an auditory stimulus was developed in 10 psychoneurotic patients. The stimulus was a metronome 150 beats per minute reenforced by lemon juice. 2. The salivary responses were designated as positive when the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.61Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages75–831. Chemical studies on the levels of adrenalin-cortical material in the blood show marked differences in the cases who recover from insulin shock therapy as compared with those who fail to recover. 2. The curves of recovered cases are characterized by a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.75Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages84–89This paper has presented additional experiences and discussion of the author's method of insulin therapy for the alleviation of suffering from opiate withdrawal. Fifteen patients have thus far been treated without failure to produce substantial freedom ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.84Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages101–109The case of a man aged 53 is described, who showed an organic type of dementia accompanied by wasting and fibrillation of the muscles of the upper extremities. The course of the disease was rapidly downhill with increasing mental deterioration and marked ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.101Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages110–1151. Toxic delirious reactions in older people are quite common. 2. They probably can be prevented if the clinician will keep in mind the special factors in the handling of older people. 3. If a toxic delirious reaction does develop, it can be corrected by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.110Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages116–121It is our impression from a review of these cases that benzedrine is a useful adjunct to treatment of the neurotic child, in that it gives him a feeling of well-being, and temporarily allows him to feel secure and loved. In this frame of mind he can face ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.1.116Publication date: 01 July 1942
Pages130–1361. As a group, manic patients have higher, and depressive patients have lower blood iodine levels than a group of normal controls. 2. In individual cases of true manic-depressive psychoses, we find a close correspondence between changes in mood and ...
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