Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other charitable projects include research in rheumatic fever and dementia praecox, an extensive hospital-visitation program. U.S. Masonry in 1948 spent more than $9,000,000 on various philanthropies (the figures are incomplete since the order does not advertise its charities...
...Lovers. Psychiatrist Szondi knows no way of curing sick genes. But he believes that he can act as a sort of Dorothy Dix of dementia. With a test he has devised, he hopes to spot latent mental illnesses and warn gene-crossed lovers against compounding their illnesses by marriage. The test is made with photographs: a scientifically selected rogues' gallery of insanity...
Nonetheless, by last week Watts and other U.S. neurosurgeons had performed more than 2,000 lobotomies, with sensational results. Lobotomy is used chiefly for serious mental diseases: schizophrenia and other forms of dementia praecox, compulsive neuroses, chronic, long-standing depression or agitation. Most cases are cured or greatly improved. So far, neurologists have discovered no seriously harmful effects. The operation is dangerous (a slight miscalculation may kill the patient by cutting a cerebral artery), but the skilled surgeons performing it have had very few deaths...
Even if Robert Taylor's role as Alan Garraway in "Undercurrent" could be explained somehow by an extreme inferiority complex, compounded with dementia praecox, schizophrenia, and an old murder and robbery hanging over his head, it is hard to explain the interminably delayed mental processes and reactions of Katharine Hepburn as his wife, Ann, who fails to understand what's wrong in the face of every possible warning and danger...
...clinic is prepared to treat any emotional or nervous disorder from a simple headache to dementia praecox; it farms out no psychotic cases. It has classified some 370 different types of headaches and experimented with a variety of new treatments; one of the most successful, developed by Dr. Arnold Friedman, is a novocaine injection in the head, which relaxes tense muscles and paves the way for persuading the patient that his headaches may disappear if he stops worrying about them...