Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded his freedom. After three anxious days, his "sister" arrived and he was able to warn her against signing the commitment which the doctors urgently advised. After...
Schizophrenia, or dementia praecox, is a major form of insanity, characterized in general by a morbid, seclusive withdrawal from life. Various organic deficiencies have been studied in connection with schizophrenia. Last week Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch of Indiana University Medical School reported another schizophrenic link -this time to rheumatic infection of the brain. Autopsying 84 schizophrenic patients who died at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, Dr. Bruetsch found that one in twelve had had rheumatic infections of the heart which also involved the brain, which showed inflammation and cellular deterioration...
...milligrams per day must be carefully regulated to the individual and an overdosage results in insomnia, lassitude, fatigue, loss of weight, a state of increased irritation, surliness, constipation, tension of the muscles, abdominal cramps, overactivity, headache, forgetfulness, confusion, inability to concentrate, and in certain individuals a tendency toward dementia praecox...
...quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of the brain." In right-handed individuals this core is located in the left half of the brain; in left-handed ones, in the right hemisphere. Said Dr. Alford: "This area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment of the mental faculties." According to Dr. Alford's findings, the fact "that the remainder of the brain may complement, complete and intensify the functions of these basal left-side structures does not alter the fundamental conclusion. Another point...
...down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...