Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major cause of the illness, to a minor role. Psychiatrist Heath also suggested that schizophrenia is far commoner than usually recognized, and that "the overwhelming majority of patients reporting to the psychiatrist for treatment are probably suffering to some degree from this disease." (At least half of all mental patients are now recognized as schizophrenics...
Behind every psychoanalyst stands the man with the syringe, said Freud. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago, the syringe-wielders held the spotlight. The momentous goal toward which they were advancing: chemical treatment of schizophrenia and other mental disorders...
Attention centered first on Dr. Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt...
Researcher Akerfeldt is clearly over that hurdle: in a jampacked meeting last week U.S. researchers said that they had duplicated his method with minor variations, adding a chemical called DPP (for N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylene diamine) to serum specimens and getting the red reaction from patients with serious mental illnesses and some other diseases. (One notable exception: patients who have had schizophrenia a long time.) Most promising positive use: the reaction seems to be clearest in children, whose emotional disorders are especially hard to diagnose-and who are not likely to have such misleading conditions as malaria or pregnancy...
...were anxious to saw off. Snapped Cleveland's Dr. Douglas D. Bond: "No group of psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long...