{"title":"Civil background variables significant to the development of psychiatric disorders during military service.","authors":"A Roness","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author served as a military psychiatrist for one year. In this article, he presents material from a personally conducted examination of soldiers with psychiatric disorders. He has also collected material on two control groups of soldiers. He has also processed patient material collected by other military psychiatrists. Both patient groups are compared with the two control groups concerning various civilian background factors. The study shows that the patients differ from the controls regarding a number of negative factors in their civilian background. These factors can be seen as predisposing to the development of psychiatric disorders while in the Military. The author concludes that these factors ought to be identified at the conscription examination, which is at present inadequate from a psychiatric viewpoint. An effort should be made at conscription to construct a profile of the individual's adaptability. The possibility of the development of a psychiatric disorder could thus be better evaluated.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"20-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12233430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A controlled comparative trial of unilateral and bilateral sinusoidal and pulse E.C.T. in endogenous depression.","authors":"M W Carney, P A Rogan, J Sebastian, B Sheffield","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sixty-six depressed patients who achieved a score of 6 or more on the Newcastle Scale were randomly allocated to 3 different modes of E.C.T.--unilateral sinusoidal, bilateral sinusoidal and pulse. Outcome, one month after completition of 6 or more E.C.T., was assessed by mean fall in Hamilton's score. Overall, there was a highly significant improvement but among the 3 groups there were no significant differences, findings not accounted for by differences in mean age, numbers of E.C.T. given or mean initial Hamilton's score among the groups. The practical and theoretical implications of the results were discussed. There seems little justification for the continued use of bilateral sinusoidal E.C.T. as opposed to other methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"77-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12233436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acid-base and oxidation-reduction relationships.","authors":"G H Chapman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>pH, the symbol for \"hydrogen-ion concentration\", is a series of dimensionless \"units\" that have only general significance. The author shows that, when considered on the basis of the relationship to oxidation-reduction, the relative significance of any pair of coordinates becomes more significant. However, the theoretical relationship as currently accepted by the Nernst equation, i.e. a shift of 59.1 milivolts for each shift of 1.0 pH, does not apply to macromolecular systems, such as in vivo. The author solved this difficulty by plotting the corrdinates graphically by bisecting pH relationships at 7.0 and oxidation-reduction relationships at Eh 0.0 milivolts, forming four quadrants. With this scheme the significance of any pair of coordinates can be readily recognized. The application of this method to biology and medicine is shown in the companion paper \"pH and Eh relationships in the body\".</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"80-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11254453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"pH and Eh relationships in the body.","authors":"G H Chapman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report concerns application of the graphical method for representing pH and Eh relationships in macromolecular systems (see previous paper) to in vivo studies. The author presents reasons for concluding that controlled measurements of urine are satisfactory indicators of changes in pH and Eh in the body whereas blood studies remain relatively constant. The original concept had to be modified because of two little known \"reversing phenomena\". One is well known to physicians as the \"acid rebound\" because of the acid reaction of urine when an excess of a base is administered. This is a paradox because it would be expected to be more alkaline. The second phenomenon occurs following hyperoxidation, such as in narcotic addiction, and results in reduction. Both hyperalkalinity and hyperoxidation result in an acid reaction. The author concludes that they are phases of a single phenomenon. It is the basis for \"Chapman's law\": Unfavorable effects on the body cause the urine pH and Eh to shift away from normal whereas favorable effects cause them to shift toward normal.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"90-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11254455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T S Danowski, E R Fisher, W Kozak, V K Bahl, T Stephan, S Nolan, U Ahmad
{"title":"Inappropriate counter-regulatory hormone levels in insulin treated diabetes.","authors":"T S Danowski, E R Fisher, W Kozak, V K Bahl, T Stephan, S Nolan, U Ahmad","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The data herein presented describe, identify, and quantitate interrelationships among blood glucose and serum insulin, growth hormone, cortisol, and glucagon levels of hospitalized insulin-treated diabetic patients. The findings indicate that conventional diet and insulin therapy of diabetes mellitus is almost always accompanied by inappropriate counter-regulation by growth hormone, cortisol, and glucagon. The data are consonant with the hypothesis that a shortage of insulin is only one of the multihormonal defects of diabetes.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12233435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discrepant cortisol values: comparison of radioimmunoassay and competitive protein binding technics.","authors":"T S Danowski, S M Robinson, E R Fisher, P Antolik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Radioimmunoassays are expected to yield precise values representing the antigen, i.e., insulin, growth, cortisol, etc. employed in producing the antibody. However, in a recent study of a synthetic ACTH which involved the measurement of cortisol levels (1), we found that above 20gamma%, the radioimmunoassay (RIA) yields cortisol values distinctly above those obtained with the competitive protein binding (CPB) technic. We now suggest a possible explanation for this discrepancy and have calculated a correction factor.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"17-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11429368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparisons of synthetic 1-18 ACTH (Organon 2001) and 1-39 ACTH of animal origin in human subjects.","authors":"T S Danowski, E R Fisher, S M Robinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The studies in human subjects herein reported provide data on the relative effects of 1-18 ACTH (Organon 2001) and commercial 1-39 ACTH of animal origin on plasma cortisol, serum non-esterified fatty acids, and certain urinary steroids.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11429370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatry on the prevention of crime.","authors":"M Paleologo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main endeavor of Forensic Psychiatry is to find out the causes, to investigate the psychodynamics of crime, hence based on them, to try to prevent or to treat them. In this connection, I will not enter into details today about the position of delinquency into psychodynamics, as they have elsewhere been described, I only would emphasize so-called \"hystero-epilepsy\" of Charcot.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12233431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mood studies of alcoholic patients.","authors":"E X Freed","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A series of mood studies of alcoholics before, during, and after participation in an inpatient treatment program is reviewed. Data highlight the extreme affective heterogeneity which characterizes alcoholics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19748,"journal":{"name":"PDM: Physicians' drug manual","volume":"7(9-12)8 1-8","pages":"92-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12233263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}