American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 99
- Number 6
- May 1943
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages775–780Twenty-five rheumatoid arthritics and 25 control patients were subjected to studies of skin temperature changes under induced emotional stress. Suggestive but inconclusive differences were noted. Emotional stress was found to produce a drop in skin ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.775Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages781–787In 67 patients with diseases involving the muscles the anatomical involvement, bio-chemical findings and personality factors were investigated. Many cases presented problems in diagnosis between structural disease of the nervous or muscular systems and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.781Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages788–792A series of cases of diverse organic diseases of the central nervous system such as chronic encephalitis with Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis, pseudo-sclerosis, dystonia musculorum deformans, and brain tumor is presented. In these cases, the initial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.788Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages793–7971. We have presented a detailed clinical report of a case of schizophrenia associated with a true diabetes mellitus. 2. Analysis of the literature and clinical experience reveals such a combination to be extremely rare, our case being but the second ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.793Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages813–8171. A fourteen-year follow-up on 111 non-hospitalized depressive patients brought information from 84, 25 of whom are dead, seven from suicide. 2. The suicide rate in this group is many times that of the general population of the same age and sex. 3. There ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.813Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages818–8211. During the period January 1930 to January 1940, 68 cases of involutional psychoses were admitted to the Norwich State Hospital, representing 0.8% of the total admissions. 17 died within 6 months, leaving 51 cases for the present study. 2. Twenty-three (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.818Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages822–834(1) It is our opinion that mongolism is not due to hereditary factors. If it were due to these factors, the incidence of mongolism should increase in proportion to the number of offspring according to Mendelian expectation. Although many mongoloid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.822Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages856–8631. Increase in the number of patients admitted to mental hospitals with senile psychoses was believed to indicate the need of studying such cases with a view to their prevention and amelioration. One hundred twenty-three cases admitted to the Pennsylvania ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.856Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages864–868We have briefly reviewed the functions of the neuropsychiatric service of a station hospital at a large training camp in the United States. We have stressed the fact that the primary functions of military psychiatry are essentially those of diagnosis and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.864Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages872–880Two groups of subjects representing extremes in adjustment in a camp devoted to instruction for industrial occupations were given a battery of tests representing different levels of complexity and personality organization. The tests were concerned with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.872Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages881–885The speech structures are described from the point of view of their relation to the upper respiratory and upper digestive tract. Their utilization in the finely co-ordinated function of speech is also described. The stuttering disorder is defined, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.6.881Publication date: 01 May 1943
Pages890–893The Youth Correction Authority Act was created by a committee of the American Law Institute. It is a model law which attempts to prevent repeated crime in the 16 to 21 group of youthful offenders through a coordinated effort to provide suitable treatment. ...
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