Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby was suffering from a stubborn form of hydrocephalus (water on the brain): spinal fluid, collecting in his skull cavity, caused his head to enlarge and threatened to squeeze the brain so that the child's mental development would be arrested. Some hydrocephalus cases can be treated with fair success by putting a tube in the spinal canal half way down the back and draining the fluid from the brain through the spinal canal into the urinary system. But this child, son of a Philadelphia industrial technician named John W. Holter. was in a worse plight because...
...state without reservation," Fish said, "that the football players receive during the fall months more mental development under a good coach than in any single liberal arts course in college...
...should emphasize the removal of blocks to learning. Also, Dr. Farnsworth and others feel that a college psychiatric service, if it is to serve the student properly in the future, must keep some time in reserve for research, for talks with members of the community interested in psychological and mental health problems, and the relation of psychiatric insights to education...
...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...
...Psychiatric service has been concerned with different problems, which also suggest research. Almost anyone could mention a psychological problem which demands further research. Such questions as "What is mental health?" are asked often. Some consideration has been given to problems of how to notice men who are likely to have trouble later in their college career, and how to act to help them meet this trouble before it becomes too acute...