Word: catatonia
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Surprisingly, from the same extract, one got the symptoms of catatonia, with his mind retarded and blocked, while the other got a paranoid reaction with delusions and hallucinations. (The fact that different reactions can be provoked by the same substance in itself raises an intriguing psychiatric question: What causes one subject to become catatonic, another to become paranoid?) Within two hours the effect wore off, and the men have been normal since. Dr. Heath emphasized that his report on only two human cases was preliminary. But it was significant, and his substance will be tested as soon as possible...
...bouquet to both Dr. Jung and TIME [Feb. 14] for their splendid efforts in at tempting to convey many highly specialized data concerning today's most momentous issue - genuine mental health. In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious social blights, shallow philosophy, A- and H-bomb hysteria, pathetically false rationalizing and a disregard for God's holy commandments, etc., yours was an exceptionally well-timed article...
...American Psychiatric Association meetings in Los Angeles, Dr. Menninger suggested that the pseudo-scientific classification of mental illnesses into neuroses (or psychoneuroses) and psychoses be dropped, and with it such terms as schizophrenia, catatonia, paranoia and manic-depressive psychosis. To take its place he proposed a simple one-two-three-four grading of mental illnesses according to severity, this to be judged by the degree to which the patient has lost contact with the world around...
...Brains, Brain cells contain protein of about the consistency of uncooked egg white. Alcohol, coffee, cocaine and anesthetics coagulate those brain proteins, as boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated temporarily when flying...