Word: manic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George S. Stevenson, women outnumber men at all ages-far more than the million-odd majority of women in the U.S. population can explain. In schizophrenia, the female-male ratio is 3 to 2; in senile psychosis and cerebral arteriosclerosis, 6 to 5; involutional psychosis, 5 to 2; and manic-depressive psychosis, about...
...kinds of difficulty which arise in University students' lives are indicated somewhat by the list of diagnoses published each year by the Hygiene Department in its report to the President of the University. During the past year, 13 students became ill with "major psychoses" such as schizophrenia and manic-depressive reactions, and were committed to mental hospitals. Three students, none of whom were under psychiatric care here, committed suicide. Anxiety neuroses occur the most frequently, and what are known as "affective disorders" next most frequently. Alcoholism involved five people, and drug addiction none. Interpersonal problems were frequent...
Reserpine is a "tranquilizing agent" used to calm patients suffering manic disorders, schizoid conditions, alcohol and drug addiction, and chronic psychoses. It has also been found effective in temporaily reducing high blood pressure...
...much for the known facts. What idea drives these manic bell-ringers? This is a more difficult question. Their aim in organizing is, according to their constitution, "to improve the quality of performance." This, of course, would be silly, as anyone with ears knows. The performance on the Lowell House bells is, currently, of good quality. This pale excuse conceals their real aim--noise: more...
...naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...