Showing papers by "Robin M. Murray published in 1976"
TL;DR: An investigation was carried out into first admissions to, and all discharges from Scottish psychiatric inpatient beds of male doctors and other social class I males who had a primary diagnosis of alcoholism.
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TL;DR: Five medically qualified women and 36 men who were being treated for alcoholism at a London postgraduate hospital were studied and it was found that of 29 doctors alive at follow-up only eight were practising satisfactorily.
Abstract: Five medically qualified women and 36 men who were being treated for alcoholism at a London postgraduate hospital were studied. Most were middle-aged and at an advanced stage of alcoholism. They had usually started drinking heavily in the wake of well-established drug dependence or other psychiatric disorder; as students or housemen; and in the armed forces. Thirty-six doctors were followed up for a mean of 63 months. Five doctors either killed themselves or died of cirrhosis, and nine persisted in almost continuous dependent drinking, while seven completely overcame their alcohol problem and 10 had only occasional relapses. Their prealcoholic careers had ranged from repeated failure to spectacular success, but of 29 doctors alive at follow-up only eight were practising satisfactorily.
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TL;DR: Recent advances in neurochemistry and in the standardization of psychiatric symptomatology and classification have facilitated the emergence of coherent testable hypotheses, and one of these predicts that the abnormal metabolism of methylated indoleamines may be a factor in the genesis of some of the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Abstract: For many years research workers have been attracted by the idea that some endogenously produced psychotogen might be implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. Unfortunately, lack of knowledge concerning the neurochemical mechanisms of normal behaviour has deprived investigators of a sound basis on which to plan their strategy, with the result that biochemical research into the condition has been mainly characterized by the accumulation of negative findings and discarded theories. However, recent advances in neurochemistry and in the standardization of psychiatric symptomatology and classification have facilitated the emergence of coherent testable hypotheses. One of these predicts that the abnormal metabolism of methylated indoleamines may be a factor in the genesis of some of the symptoms of schizophrenia (Domino 1975, Gillin etal. 1976).
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