{"title":"Psychopathology","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375-a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375-a","url":null,"abstract":"INJURY to both occipital lobes of the brain was a result of a gunshot lesion affecting the posterior part of the skull. As in other cases seen during the war a distinct localization was observed for different qualities of optic disturbance. Blindness for the form of objects was an isolated defect more definitely observed than in any case previously examined. Deficient perception of form and shape was limited to the visual sphere and no disturbance was observed with regard to form and shape in any other region of the brain, e.g. by touching, writing and drawing. Goldstein and Gelb previously described a disturbance for visual form not limited to the visual region in a case of a lesion of the occipital lobe, but according to Kleist's opinion this resulted from a brain lesion outside the visual sphere. M.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"375 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375-a","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913475","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":"NEUROPATHOLOGY","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.374-a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.374-a","url":null,"abstract":"abstracts MReuroloows MReuroloow NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY [145] The localization of the macular fibres in the optic radiations (Zur Lokalisation der Maculafaserung innerhalb der Sehstrahlung).A. JUBA. Zeits.f. d. g. Neurol. u. Psychiat., 1935, 154, 123. RETROGRADE degeneration, almost exclusively involving the macular region in the geniculate body, resulted from unilateral softening in the area striata affecting mainly the polar region. The fibres situated in the ventral part of the vertical peduncle in the optic radiation were degenerated. Thus, these fibres have to be considered as the fibres of central vision in the optic radiation. The case described favours a theory that the macular fibres are situated in the middle of the optic radiation and not in its dorsal part as Pfeifer had maintained. M.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"31 1","pages":"374 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.374-a","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913433","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":"SENSORIMOTOR NEUROLOGY","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375","url":null,"abstract":"INJURY to both occipital lobes of the brain was a result of a gunshot lesion affecting the posterior part of the skull. As in other cases seen during the war a distinct localization was observed for different qualities of optic disturbance. Blindness for the form of objects was an isolated defect more definitely observed than in any case previously examined. Deficient perception of form and shape was limited to the visual sphere and no disturbance was observed with regard to form and shape in any other region of the brain, e.g. by touching, writing and drawing. Goldstein and Gelb previously described a disturbance for visual form not limited to the visual region in a case of a lesion of the occipital lobe, but according to Kleist's opinion this resulted from a brain lesion outside the visual sphere. M.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"375 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.375","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913441","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":"Reviews and Notices of Books","authors":"iRevlews anb lRotices, Ian F. Suttie","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.377","url":null,"abstract":"The Origins of Love and Hate. By Ian F. Suttie, M.D. With a preface by Dr. J. A. Hadfield. London: Kegan Paul. 1935. Pp. 275. Price lOs. 6d. net. DR. IAN SUTTIE has been a contributor to this JOURNAL in days gone by, and his numerous articles on psychopathology have shown him to be possessed of a well-stored and critical mind. These features are seen in the reasoned and animated criticism with which he here assails Freudian theory. He adduces evidence to show that Freudian theory has from the outset been coloured by the temperament of Freud himself; from Freud's own lips Dr. Suttie illustrates a ' specially inexorable repression ' that has resulted in a grudge against mothers and a mind-blindness for love. Mother attachments of the individual are, for Freud, 'lost in a past dim and shadowy,' and the Mother-Cults of antiquity are for him a repellant and insoluble mystery. In temperate language and with incisive argument Dr. Suttie proceeds to exemplify this bias on the part of the founder of the theory-a bias of which others have been aware and which, unfortunately, has reproduced itself in not a few of his disciples. It has found perhaps its crudest expression in such a statement as 'Every mother is her child's first seductress '-an opinion so monstrous as to prove of itself that its originator is incapable of understanding what maternal love means. It is good indeed that someone has been found who is so well equipped as Dr. Suttie to cross swords with the exponents of ill-considered views of the kind. But there is much more than destructive criticism of Freudian theory in this finely written work, in which the meaning, psychology, function and expression of love are constructively discussed with scientific insight and a large measure of sound common sense. Love is, properly, separated and distinguished from appetite and desire, and cultural interest is shown to be something very different from substitute sex gratification.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"377 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.64.377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913492","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":"PSYCHOSES","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.277","url":null,"abstract":"[125] A confusional state associated with infective endocarditis.-DAVID SHAW. Jour. of Ment. Sci., 1935, 81, 435. THIS case is interesting as showing the development of a confusional'state associated with infective endocarditis. In the light of the post-mortem findings, the extensive area of ulcerative endocarditis, the damage to the brain and widespread area of infarction, it appears highly probable that the patient's dulled mental state, her emotional instability and incontinence, were due to repeated small embolic heemorrhages in the frontal lobes and hemispheres generally, and possibly in the thalamus. It suggests, too, that the confusional states which sometimes occur in advanced cases of endocarditis (apart from septic endocarditis) might be explained on this physical basis of repeated embolic haemorrhages in the brain, not large enough or situated in the necessary position to cause the usual marked physical lesions of hemiplegia, etc., but sufficiently destructive to damage the associational paths subserving the higher centres of cerebration.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"277 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.277","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913781","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":"PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.285","url":null,"abstract":"treatment procedure in their delusional formations. One of the melancholia patients improved considerably. Three others showed a mild transitory improvement and the other six remained unchanged. Slight variations in weight were noted after treatment in both the praecox and involutional cases. There was a tendency to low basal metabolism value prior to treatment in the dementia pr2ecox group. Insignificant changes were noted in the oxygen consumption rate during and at the end of treatment in both groups. There was a larger number of cases with relatively low blood counts prior to the institution of treatment in the melancholic group as compared to the dementia praecox group. Improvement in the blood picture at the end of treatment was noted in the involutional melancholia patients. C. S. R. [144] Treatment of schizophrenia with prolonged narcosis.-PAUL HOCK. Psychiatric Quarterly, 1935, 9, 386. ON the basis of his experience the author outlines the following indications for prolonged narcosis in this psychosis. All acute schizophrenics with excitement, depression or apprehension, are suitable cases, the most favourable results being obtained in cases of acute catatonic excitement. Less favourable results are observed in stuporous cases and in mute, manneristic catatonias with stereotypies and other psychomotor phenomena. Quiet, self-absorbed catatonics are also suitable to lessen the autism and diminish the negativism. The procedure employed is preliminary to a psychotherapeutic approach. Chronic or slowly developing forms of catatonics are not much influenced by prolonged narcosis. No beneficial results were observed in cases of dementia simplex or in schizophrenics accompanied with mental deficiency unless episodes of excitement or depression were present. The treatment is used primarily to control the excitements: no effect upon the psychosis per se can be expected. Quiet, paranoid schizophrenics are not influenced. Cases where the psychosis was precipitated by an actual conflict in the environment respond most favourably to the treatment. Better results are obtained when certain psychotherapeutic measures are employed after completing the narcosis. Occupational therapy should be immediately used where it is practicable. In three different groups in the author's clinic, scopolaminluminal, avertin-luminal, and pernocton-luminal were the narcotics respectively used.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"285 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913356","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":"Reviews and Notices of Books","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"287 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913366","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":"The Nomenclature of Intracranial Tumours","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"261 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.261","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913559","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":"Neurology","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.265","url":null,"abstract":"[95] Conditions of the transmission of nervous impulse over the sympathetic interneuronic synapses (Condizioni della trasmissione dcll' influsso nervoso attraverso le sinapsi simpatiche interneuroniche). D. BOLSI and F. VISINTINI. Riv. di pat. nerv. e went., 1934, 43, 1129. TIIE present research shows that in experiments on the sympathetic pupil dilator-fibres transmission is conditioned by the chronaxy of the single neurones. Drugs effect the transmission by altering the relationship of the chronaxies of single neurones. Even nicotine which was supposed to have a selective action on veegetative synapses is proved to act by altering the chronaxial relationslhips of the neurones concerned. In fact it lowers the chronaxv of the preganglionic fibres. Further researches on the action of drugs along these lines would be interesting. It. G. G. [96] Histological aspects of the pineal body in relation to pregnancy (Aspetti istologici della pineale in rapporto allo stato gravidico). V. DESOGUS. Riv. di pat. nerv. e ment., 1935, 45, 555. TIIE author, after reviewing the researches which have led to the concept that the pineal gland does not exhaust its physiological possibilities after the attainment of sexual maturity, describes his own researches on birds and mammals, by means of which he has demonstrated the great activity of the pineal gland during the maximal activity of the genital organs and vice versa. After having put forward radiological and clinical evidence leading to a similar point of view, and discussed the present state of the controversial question of the behaviour of the pineal gland during pregnancy, he opposes this last argument, showing on the basis of his own researches that the gland, after being progressively involved in the progress of the developing pregnancy, shows, as a very late stage, histological characters denoting a state of marked involution. These facts lead to the concept of a pineal-genital endocrine system which antagonises the thyroid-suprarenal-pituitary group.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"265 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913566","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":"NEUROPATHOLOGY","authors":"J. Attems, K. Jellinger","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.267","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the main neuropathological features of the most common age-associated neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia with Lewy bodies, as well as other less frequent ones such as multiple system atrophy, Pick’s disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, argyrophilic grain disease, neurofibrillary tangle-dominant dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology, and Huntington’s disease. Likewise, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, hippocampal sclerosis, vascular dementia, and prion diseases are described. A main aim of this chapter is to assist the reader in interpreting neuropathological reports; hence criteria for the neuropathological classifications of the major diseases are provided. One section covers general considerations on neurodegeneration, and basic pathophysiological mechanisms of tau, amyloid-β, α-synuclein, TDP-43, and prions are briefly described in the sections on the respective diseases. Finally, one section is dedicated to cerebral multimorbidity, and a view on currently emerging neuropathological methods is given.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"267 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913607","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}