Showing papers in "Journal of Psychiatric Research in 1970"

TL;DR: The present paper reports a replication of the original study on a new sample of consecutive female admissions to a psychiatric hospital rather than preselected ‘typical’ patients, to investigate whether factor analysis would produce patterns with similar results.

TL;DR: It is indicated that different types of alcoholics do better under different programs, and that the overall success rate in the treatment of alcoholic patients could be improved by offering a variety of treatment programs and allowing the patient some choice in thereatment he receives.

TL;DR: A series of experiments have been planned to study the effects of brain lesions on social behavior both in the laboratory and in the field in several species of Old-World monkeys.

TL;DR: Intracisternal injection of lithium chloride caused an increase in rat brain glycogen and intraperitoneal injection of 500 to 1200 μmoles lithium chloride increased both brain and diaphragm glycogen, whereas liver glycogen decreased.

TL;DR: It is important that symptom rating scales, rather than clinical diagnoses, be used in evaluating the psychiatric relevance of background variables, whereas the use of quantitive rating scale profiles to describe psychopathology avoids most of this problem.

TL;DR: In recent years fresh interest in possible genotypic contributions to criminal behavior has arisen due to the finding of a relatively large number of individuals with various chromosomal abnormalities in maximum security institutions for the mentally ill, the mentally subnormal, and among prison populations.

TL;DR: In clinical research the number of comparable subjects available for study is often limited; thus excessive reliance on conventional between groups designs and inferential statistics may be stifling worthwhile investigation.

TL;DR: The major methyl donor for methylation processes within the body is methionine and an aspect of the metabolism of the S-methyl moiety of this compound is studied in patients with schizophrenic and affective disorders.

TL;DR: It is concluded that in studies of urinary NM and VMA , attention must be given to the NE content of the diet, and in studies involving E and M, caffeine shoudl be proscribed or controlled.

TL;DR: Two acutely psychotic patients, one a manic-depressive, the other and acute schizophrenic, who both had marked increases in the activity of creatine phopphokinase and aldolase in serum are presented and discussed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the glycogen depletion of the liver induced by lithium is caused by an increase in the secretion of glucagon, and the mechanism did not seem to involved a central mediation.

TL;DR: A follow-up four months after the end of a double-blind trial of diazepam (Valium) indicates that a personality characteristic (Acquiescence) and medication had significant joint, or interactive, effects upon outcome.

TL;DR: Characteristic levels of 33 psychological and 2 endocrine variables (urinary and plasma 17-OHCS) were estimated in a ‘normal’ population consisting of 22 men and 24 women under everyday life circumstances and the concept, Effectivenss of Defenses as used here referred to overall operation of character defenses rather than to defenses against a specific external challenge, as was true in other studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the secondary antibody response to tetanus toxoid in schizophrenic patients, hospitalized non-schizophrenic psychiatric patients, and normal controls was reported, but did not correlate this abnormality with schizophrenia.

TL;DR: The results do not support the proposition that substances capable of modifying rats' rope-climbing time are present in systematically larger quantities in the blood of schizophrenic patients than in theBlood of control donors.

TL;DR: Attitudes relevant to mental illness were sampled among psychiatric ward staff members and hospitalized psychoneurotic patients and show the predominance of low self-esteem, passive compliance and a physical orientation toward the patient's own mental illness.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that disturbed children have particular patterns of perceiving verbal communication within the family, and that these patterns are at least partially determined by the child's perception of the parent as rewarding or punishing, is supported.

TL;DR: The results of a study in small sample of normal volunteer families in which one important methodological modification is made from previous small group family studies are reported to clarify research approaches to the study of normal family structure and the type of structural abnormalities which should be looked for in pathological families.

TL;DR: The Behavior Disordered were more responsive to verbal approval and modified their behavior to obtain approval to a greater extent than either of the other groups, although the Normals were more successful in terms of total amount of money obtained.