Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Health Services warned that 16 percent of these students had defects in urgent need of care if loss of teeth was to be avoided. About one third of the entering students were free of trouble, and needed no treatment...
Which is harder on the heart-work or leisure? This question got the full-dress treatment last week by 70 specialists from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Finland, gathered in Milwaukee for a conference* on work and the heart. From studies designed to find out how much work a man can safely do after a heart attack, they developed some startling facts...
...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. 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...
Discussing treatment of the disease, Heath turned his back dramatically on his own analytic training, declared that conventional psychiatric treatment based on analytic principles is wrong for schizophrenics-by increasing the stress to which they are subject, it can make their condition worse. He said that his laboratories had extracted something from the brains of cattle which he had tried in schizophrenic patients. What the substance is, Experimenter Heath did not claim to know: he gets it from the "septal region" (part of the midbrain. in front of the hypothalamus) of bovine brains. One test: Heath & Co. shot taraxein into...