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Prepsychotic personality in alcoholic psychoses
The Psychiatric Quarterly, 19401. In the more acute phases of alcoholic psychoses, the toxic factors apparanetly predominate. 2. In the more protracted forms of alcoholic psychoses, the introverted personalities seem to predominate, although organic deterioration cannot be disregarded. 3. There appears to be need for a subdivision in the group of alcoholic
Eugene Davidoff, Carl A. Whitaker
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Experimental Psychoses Induced by Benactyzine in Alcoholics
1968Publisher Summary This chapter investigates the effect of benactyzine, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) and placebo on some psychic and physiological functions in 16 chronic alcoholics. Clinical changes evoked by benactyzine had more similarities with Korsakoff psychosis and delirium tremens than those induced by LSD.
D Krus +6 more
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Psychopathy and Psychoses Associated with Alcohol
Journal of Mental Science, 1938For some years following the war the number of patients admitted to mental hospitals whose illnesses were associated with alcohol definitely decreased, but recently the number again appears to be on the increase. During the past eighteen months 50 patients whose illnesses were the result of alcoholic excess were admitted to St. Ebba's Hospital. As this
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Mean Age, Sex Ratio and Psychopathology in Alcohol Psychoses
Psychopathology, 1988In a retrospective study the case histories of 154 patients with acute alcohol psychosis were examined. The obvious diagnostic criteria in the doctor's differential diagnosis between alcohol withdrawal delirium and alcohol hallucinosis was clouding of sensorium and disorientation.
R. Steinberg, Michael Soyka, L. Raith
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Suicide and Alcohol Psychoses in Belarus 1970-2005
Crisis, 2007Abstract. Background: The relationship between alcohol and suicide is well documented. The research evidence suggests an important role for a cultural and social context in the alcohol-suicide association. Purpose: To estimate the aggregate level effect of alcohol consumption on the suicide rate in Slavic culture.
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Comparison of Ditran Intoxication and Acute Alcohol Psychoses [PDF]
, 1970 Many factors contribute to the clinical picture in the Acute Alcohol Psychoses. When seen clinically, the patient is suffering from a toxin vhich poisons many organs and systems. In addition to the effects of alcohol, some of the pathology may result from nutritional deficiency. Further, factors in the premorbid personality can contribute to the choice
Murray Alpert +3 more
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CEVITAMIC ACID CONTENT OF BLOOD PLASMA IN ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSES [PDF]
Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry, 1938 The pathologic lesions in the central nervous system associated with chronic alcoholism may be divided into two groups; (a) pellagroid and neuritic changes, described by Meyer1as central neuritis, and (b) the lesions described by Wernicke2as polioencephalitis haemorrhagica superior and inferior.
Purcell G. Schube +3 more
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SOME DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSES
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1942In alcoholic psychoses an essentially uniform clinical course is usually encountered. In order of increasing severity, the progression is: automatism, delusions, hallucinations, delirium, stupor, convulsions, coma and death. With the exception of the last step, this series tends to be reversible. However, improvement may stop at any point before health
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THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSES WITH BENZEDRINE SULFATE
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1938Alcohol is recognized to have a depressing effect on the central nervous system. 1 It therefore seemed rational to us 2 to attempt treatment of psychoses due to intoxication from alcohol with benzedrine sulfate (beta-phenylisopropylamine sulfate), which has been established to have a stimulating effect on the central nervous system.
Eugene Davidoff, Edward C. Reifenstein
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The Psycho-pathology of Alcoholism and Some So-called Alcoholic Psychoses
Journal of Mental Science, 1920The social problems connected with alcohol are always before us, but social reconstruction after the great war has brought them into greater prominence than ever, while America having gone “dry” and the prohibition campaign starting in this country have brought the question of alcohol home to even the unthinking section of the community. In the past we
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