Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans are divided on the budget. Again and again, Johnson gleefully pointed to such specimens of Republican budgetary schizophrenia as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's famed "hair-curling" warning and the businessmen's revolt on the budget...
From Bovine Brains. Most controversial of the biochemists' reports came from Tulane University's Dr. Robert Heath, who is both an analyst and a man with a syringe. For the first time, Dr. Heath spelled out his theory of the nature of schizophrenia, at which he had only hinted previously (TIME, May 14, 1956). He and his colleagues believe that schizophrenia is a "genetically determined metabolic disease"-i.e., a disorder of body chemistry which reflects a defect in the inherited genes. He relegated emotional stress, generally regarded as a major cause of the illness, to a minor role...
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...
...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. In any patient, old or young, other techniques must be used for diagnosis...