American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 99
- Number 4
- January 1943
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages475–483The scrutiny of this small group of patients, presenting a serious deterioration of insidious onset, reveals as outstanding factors the constitutional inadequacy of the individual patient and the unfavorable external factors which conditioned and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.475Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages496–506Methods of evaluating capacity for recovery, including conventional psychiatric procedures and determination of serum lipoids, have been investigated in 142 patients with manic-depressive and schizophrenic psychoses. The conventional clinical psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.496Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages507–5121. In the majority of cases showing an association of epileptic and schizophrenic symptoms, we may deal either with symptomatic epilepsy in schizophrenia, or, what is more common, with a symptomatic schizophrenia in epilepsy. 2. The number of cases ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.507Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages513–518We have presented briefly a preliminary report on the results of a follow-up study of psychiatric patients treated by means of electrically induced convulsions and by means of metrazol convulsions. Of the former, 144 cases were studied and of the latter, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.513Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages519–5241. The properties of electrical currents, which basically determine the stimulatory efficiency are: type of current, amperage and length of time stimulus is applied. The threshold cannot be computed accurately in terms of voltage, due to variations in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.519Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages525–530Electroencephalographic observations have been made on 30 patients, 15 of whom received convulsions by means of raw a. c., 15 by means of unidirectional fluctuating current; and it is suggested that there is a significant increase in the occurrence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.525Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages531–533Fifty patients over 50 years of age who had severe mental illness were treated with convulsive shock therapy. Of these 50 patients, 40 were either recovered or improved enough to be discharged to their homes. Ten remained unimproved. Although the risks ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.531Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages534–5411. On admission, the degree of malnutrition found in chronic schizophrenic patients is not significantly different from that found in the entire hospital population. 2. While the entire hospital population has little change in the extent of malnutrition ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.534Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages557–5641. Large doses of diethyl stilbestrol were administered to 45 women with involutional psychoses. 2. Twenty-seven (60 per cent) were improved, while in a control series of 128 women, only 54 (42 per cent) were improved. 3. (A) The simple cases of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.557Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages565–5681. An alcohol oxidation mechanism has been found to be present in brain. The extraction and analysis of the system has been described. 2. Two members of the vitamin B complex, namely nicotinic acid and riboflavin, are components, i. e., they are essential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.565Publication date: 01 January 1943
Pages569–570Bilateral prefrontal lobotomy was performed on 10 chronically disturbed schizophrenics and one mentally deficient patient. Insignificant amelioration of symptoms was noted in two and no improvement in all the other patients. One patient became decidedly ...
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