ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

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For the past 25 years, the research program of the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology has been directed primarily to the development of treatment for patients with certain psychiatric and neurological disorders that have been resistant to commonly used therapy. In the course of investigations, using a variety of approaches, new techniques have evolved which have permitted simultaneous exploration of brain activity and behavior. The data reported substantiate an anatomical localization in the brain for the syndrome of psychotic behavior. Further, observations in patients, coupled with animal investigations, have led to the demonstration of brain pathways and previously undisclosed anatomical connections which provide a physical substrate for the clinically observed relation between perception and emotionality. These findings provide a basis for the development of specific biological methods for the treatment of behavioral disorders.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Groups of paranoid reactive and nonparanoid process schizophrenic subjects participated in an experiment in which they were reinforced to modify attentional and autonomic responsiveness to differential excitatory and inhibitory avoidance stimuli. Groups did not differ in autonomic responsiveness or in ability to modify GSR and FPV activity to the differential avoidance stimuli. Groups were found to differ in their response to experimental instructions. Paranoid subjects reported being able to exert considerable emotional control during emotional stress. Nonparanoid subjects reported an inability to exert emotional control during stressful stimulation.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

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The present experiment sought to increase the volume of speech in three adult male institutionalized patients. The method consisted of shaping modeled responses. Reinforcement was contingent upon the vocalization surpassing the threshold on an electronic volume indicator, which could be set at various levels of sensitivity. Results indicated that the volume of speech was increased in all three cases, as a function of manipulation of reinforcement contingencies. Follow-up data indicated that the long term maintenance of the acquired behavior was dependent on the ward environment.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

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Based on a double blind cross-over study, it was determined that schizophrenic patients who have more high frequency fast activity and a lesser degree of alpha and slow waves in computerized EEG before the treatment have a better therapeutic outcome to the major tranquilizer (neuroleptic) treatment. The correlation between pretreatment high frequency computer EEG measurements and better therapeutic outcome reached the level of statistical significance. “Therapy resistant” schizophrenic patients were characterized by a lesser degree of very fast beta activity, more alpha waves and slow waves, higher amplitudes in computer EEG, and a lesser degree of acute (florid) psychotic symptomatology but more “negative” symptoms such as motor retardation and blunted affect. One of the most striking results of the study is the finding that schizophrenic patients with certain psychopathological profiles also have similar computer EEG profiles.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

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This is a study of the psychology of college students who are seriously suicidal.Fifty college students who had made suicide attempts were studied in detail over a 5-year period. Short term therapy was administered in most cases and long term therapy in some. Psychological tests (Wechsler. Adult Intelligence Scale, Eorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, Sentence Completion, Figure Drawing, and Word Association) were performed and used as an independent check on the data derived from the interviews.The study indicates the ways in which death has become a way of life for these students—an integral, ongoing part of their adaptation. It traces the origin of this adaptation in a family relationship that the students perceived as requiring their emotional extinction. These students are tied to their parents in a kind of death knot and have become overtly suicidal when life—coming to college, graduating, becoming seriously involved with another person—threatens to unravel this knot.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

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There is little information on the sexual activity of patients with end-stage renal failure in spite of its being mentioned as a common side effect of kidney disease and chronic hemodialysis. In this report 32 married, male dialysis patients, 19 of whom had also received renal homografts, were interviewed and a detailed sexual history obtained. Twenty per cent of this population had no decrease in sexual functioning after the onset of kidney disease or the institution of dialysis, 45 per cent had reduced sexual potency after the onset of kidney disease, and another 35 per cent after beginning dialysis. Forty per cent of those patients receiving a kidney transplant had a subsequent increase in sexual potency.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

An investigation of family histories of bipolar affective disorder patients with and without an additional diagnosis of alcoholism showed that affective disorder was seen with equal frequency in both populations of relatives. Alcoholism was significantly more prevalent in relatives of the alcoholic probands than in the relatives of those who did not themselves have alcoholism. These data suggest that bipolar affective disorder and alcoholism may be transmitted independent of one another.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1975

数据来源: OVID