Word: praecox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today psychiatrists again apply with scientific refinements something very like medieval shock treatment to victims of schizophrenia (dementia praecox). Most common form of insanity, schizophrenia packs 200,000 patients in U. S. mental hospitals. Whether social, psychological or physical difficulties cause schizophrenia no one knows. A schizophrenic may believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back...
...varying amounts each year to different instructors and administrators to pay for special research. Work financed by this year's grants cover such widely differing subjects as preparation for a "History of the Voyages of Columbus" and experimental studies with insulin and metrozol used in the treatment of dementia praecox...
...like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House for a cigar to sex-tormented schoolteachers and victims of dementia praecox...
...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...