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Epitome of Current Journals J Neurol Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.2.3.259 on 1 July 1939. Downloaded from EPITOME OF CURRENT JOURNALS ACTA PSYCHIATRICA ET NEUROLOGICA Vol. 13. No. 44. 1938. Die psychiatrische Entwicklung in den nordischen Cardiazol Treatment at Home and Abroad. H. H. Landern. (Development of psychiatry in Scandi- Dedichen. 563. navia.) H. I. Schou, K. 1. Kalpa, and H. Soethre. Zur Beurteilung der Ergebnisse der Cardiazoltherapie. 339. (Assessment of results of cardiazol therapy.) B. Ober die Abgrenzung der Neurosen und ihre Jacobowsky. 569. Einteilung in Untergruppen mit besonderer Erfahrungen mit Insulinbehandlungen am Kranken- Berucksichtigung der Formen die den endogenen haus zu Pitkaniemi. (Experiences with insulin Psychosen nahestehen. (The definition of the therapy in Pitkaniemi Hospital.) J. Runeberg. neuroses and their subdivisions, with special con- 571. sideration of types bordering on psychosis.) V. Cardiazol-Shock and Insulin-Shock-Treatment. Makela. 353. E. V. Jensen. 583. Zur Frage der psychopathischen Zustande, ihrer Vorlaufigen Erfahrungen mit Cardiazolbehandlung Abgrenzung, ihrer Relation zu den Neurosen und am Krankenhaus Lier. (Early experiences with Psychosen sowie einige kritischen Bemerkungen zu cardiazol therapy in Lier Hospital.) 0. Munch. den verschiedenen Typenlehren. (Psychopathic 587. states and their relation to the neuroses and Insulin- und Cardiazolbehandlung am Krankenhaus psychoses. Remarks on theories of type.) G. 0stmarken. (Insulin and cardiazol treatment at Langfeldt. 381. the 0stmark Hospital.) S. Munch. 589. Laboratory and Catamnestic Investigations into the Qber Resultate der Insulinschokbehandlung bei So-called Neuroses. H. 1. Schou. 383. Schizophrenie und " Schizophrenieahnlichen" Psy- Die Prinzipien einer causalen Diagnostik. (Etiology chosen. (Results of insulin shock therapy in in diagnosis.) H. Siobring. 399. schizophrenia and " schizophrenic-like " psy- Enzephalographische Befunde bei sog. " Psycho- choses.) A. Soininen. 591. neurosen." (Encephalographic findings in so- Die Geisteskranken-Gesetzgebung Finnlands. called " psychoneuroses.") V. Wigert. 401. (Lunacy law in Finland.) K. I. Kalpa. 619. Die traumatische Neurose und ihrer Abhangigkeit Ober anatomische Veranderungen bei der Pickschen vom Zeitgeist. (Traumatic neuroses and their Krankheit. (Anatomical findings in Pick's relation to current thought.) M. Kaila. 419. disease.) J. Jansen. 631. (bersicht uber die Patientenbelegung der Sicherung- The Function of Language and its Development in sanstalt fur geisteskranke Verbrecher in Nykobing Early Childhood. Partly supported by an in der Zeit von 1918 bis 1938 unter besonderer Examination of the Function of Language in a Berucksichtigung der Psychopathien. (Survey of Child Thirteen Months of Age. D. Abrahamsen. the patients confined to institutions for the mentally 649. diseased and criminal in Nykobing from 1918 to Le Phenomene " Deja Vu." (" Deja Vu " pheno- 1938, with special consideration of the psycho- menon.) H. Torp. 659. http://jnnp.bmj.com/ paths.) E. J. Lemmergaard and J. Ravn. 431. *Some Observations on the Plasmalipids in Acute The Electro-Encephalogram in Epilepsy. T. S. Frey. Schizophrenia. E. Jokivartio and T. Kalaja. 433. 667. Psychiatric Examinations of Certain Male Vagrants and Alcoholics in Sweden in the Year 1938. G. Eosinophils in Mental Disease.-An Adell. 447. A Psychiatric Examination of Female Prostitutes in eosinophilia was found in six semi- Sweden. G. Jonsson. 463. stuporous schizophrenics and five melan- Junge Ruckfallsverbrecher in Norwegischen Gefang- cholic patients, while eosinophilia from nisse, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Psycho- to pathieproblems in der Kriminologie. (Criminal 3 6 per cent. was noted in five manic relapses in the young in Norwegian prisons, with psychoses. After cardiazol convulsions the particular regard to psychopathic problems in eosinophil count either remained unchanged on September 23, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. criminology.) 0. Odegard. 477. Versuche uber die Behandlung sog. psycho- or showed a relative decrease. (L. C. K.) pathischer Zustande bei Kindern. (Treatment of Manic Depressive Psychosis in Iceland.- child psychopaths.) G. Nycander. 481. The manic *Neue Untersuchungen uber das Verhalten der depressive morbidity in the eosinofilen Zellen bei Psychosen. (New enquiry families of 23 manic patients did not exceed on the behaviour of eosinophil cells in the psy- the manic depressive morbidity of the choses.) F. Rud. 501. population of Iceland as a whole. This In welchen Umfange wird die Diagnosenstatistik der Psychiatrischen Klinike von den mannlichen population has mixed little with others for Alkoholikern beeinflusst ? (In what direction are the last thousand years. (L. C. K.) the diagnostic statistics of psychiatric clinics in- fluenced by male alcoholics ?) H. Soethre. 513. Plasmalipids in Schizophrenia.-The Zur Frage der Serumtoxitat bei Geisteskranken. ether-soluble phosphatids and cholesterol (Serum toxicity in mental disease.) E. G. Wahl- have been studied in 40 acute schizo- strom. 515. phrenics. The values for the were *Further Investigations on Manic-Depressive Psy- former choses. H. Tomasson. 517. lower than in healthy controls and remained Somatologische und Ernahrungshygienische Unter- unchanged by cardiazol or insulin therapy. suchungen an Anstaltspatienten. (Somatic and The cholesterol levels varied more than in nutritional examinations of institutional patients.) 0. J. Broch. 527. normals, but the mean average determina- Demonstrations of a Plan for a new mental hospital tion was the same as that of the controls. in Sundsvall, Sweden. P. Bjorck. 561. (L. C. K.) 259 J Neurol Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.2.3.259 on 1 July 1939. Downloaded from 260 CURRENT JOURNALS ALLGEMEINE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHIATRIE UND IHRE GRENZGEBIETE Vol. 111. N4o. 1/2. March 1939. Die Stellung psychischer Erbleiden im neuen lung der Schizophrenie. (The result of insulin Ehegesetz. (Hereditary psychosis and the new shock treatment.) F. Kogler. 102. marriage law.) K. Beringer. 1. Neurosenverhutung in der allgemeinarzlichen Praxis. Statistische Untersuchungen uber die Spontan- (Prevention of neuroses in general practice.) W. remission. (Statistical observations on spon- Enke. 122. taneous recoveries in schizophrenia.) E. Neumann Psychiatrische Erfahrungen mit PP. 42b und 42c des and F. Finkenbrink. 17. Gesetzes gegen gefahrliche Gewohnheitsverbrecher und uber Massregeln der Sicherung und Besserung Alkoholismus und Selbsmord. (Alcoholism and vom November 1933. (Psychiatric experiences in suicide.) P. Graute. 47. connection with the law against habitual criminals.) Luminalwirkung und Cardiazolkrampf. (Effect of W. Creutz. 137. luminal on convulsions due to cardiazol.) A. Langeluddecke. 63. New Therapeutic Methods in Schizo- Photometrische Untersuchungen zur Liquor-Reaktion phrenia.-It is not possible to pass a von Lehmann-Facius. (Photometric investigations on Lehmann-Facius's test.) H. Selbach. 65. definite judgment on the value of insulin *Uber den Wert der neuen Behandlungsmethoden and cardiazol therapy unless the term der Schizophrenie. (The value of new therapeutic ",schizophrenia," which is still applied methods in schizophrenia.) W. Geller. 87. vaguely to many different psychotic pictures, Beitrag uber das Ergebnis der Insulinschockbehand- is defined. (K. S.) Vol. 112. April 1939. Syphilis und Erbkrankheiten. (Syphilis and here- matischen) Delir. (The children of the union of a ditary diseases.) F. Jahnel. 1. schizophrenic with a genuine paranoic.) R. Begriffliche Untersuchung uber den Zwang. (The Formanek. 184. phenomenon of compulsion.) K. Schneider. 17. Mendelzahlen bei der Huntingtonschen Chorea. Personlichkeitsdiagnose nach Sjobring und ihre (Mendel's calculation applied to Huntington's Bedeutung fur die psychiatrische Erbforschung. chorea.) J. L. Entres. 195. (Diagnosis of personality according to Sjobring. Wesen, Bedeutung, Ergebnisse und Aufgaben der Its significance for research on heredity.) E. erbbiologischen Forschung an abnormen Person- Essen-M6ller. 25. lichkeiten. (Genetics of abnormal personalities.) Selbstmordversuche Jugendlicher. (Attempted H. Riedel. 200. suicide in young persons.) G. Schmidt. 32. Anlage und Umwelt in ihrer Bedeutung fur die Ober das Verhalten der Phosphatidfraktion im Verwahrlosung weiblicher Jugendlicher. (Pre- Liquor cerebrospinalis bei schizophrenen Prozess- disposition and environment of asocial girls.) H. psychosen. (Phosphatides in the c.s.f. in schizo- Schroeder. 224. phrenia.) F. Roeder. 44. Ober die erbliche Bedingtheit der Homosexualitiit Vergleichende Betrachtungen uber Anatomie und und die grundsatzliche Bedeutung der Inter- Klinik der Entmarkungsenzephalitiden. (Ana- sexualitatsforschung fur die menschliche Genetik. tomical and clinical observations on inflammatory (The genetics of homosexuality.) T. Lang. 237. diffuse sclerosis.) G. Peters. 51. Ober den Erbwert der leichtesten Schwachsinnsgrade http://jnnp.bmj.com/ Zur Frage der pathologischen Anatomie der Schizo- und der blossen Schwachbegabung. (The here- phrenie. (Morbid anatomy of schizophrenia.) T. ditary significance of slightest degrees of feeble- Roeder-Kutsch. 63. mindedness.) A. Juda. 255. Erblehre und Rassenhygiene in ihren Beziehungen Die angeborene cerebrale Kinderlahmung (Littlesche zur Sozialokonomie und Philosophie. (The Krankheit). (Congenital Little's disease.) K. relation of heredity and eugenics to social econo- Thums. 262. mics and philosophy.) E. Peust. 75. Sind
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