{"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":"Recent Advances in Therapeutic (Induced) Malaria.","authors":"G de M Rudolf","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.239","url":null,"abstract":"As experience has accumulated with the extended use of malaria for theraIeutic purposes new and interesting observations have been made. Some of these are of value to the malariologist, some to the neurologist, some to the psychiatrist. This article is an attempt at a summary of the more important observations that have been made within recent years. Up to the year 1926, the position of therapeutic malaria was summarized in an earlier work, so that only new facts that have been brought to light since that date will be recorded. Confirmatory evidence will not be described.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"16 63","pages":"239-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40108365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effective Use of Small Non-dehydrating Doses of Epsom Salt in Epilepsy: A Study of One Hundred and Nine Cases.","authors":"A Wolf","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.213","url":null,"abstract":"ELEVATION of blood magnesium to excess produces coma.' Elevation of blood magnesium in moderation produces drowsiness. This sedative effect is applied therapeutically in the control of uraemic 2 and eclamptic 3 convulsions by intravenous magnesium sulphate. The converse of this, depression of blood magnesium, produces parathyroid tetany. The latter has been developed experimentally in rats 4 on diets deficient in magnesium and may occur clinically with low blood magnesium.5 Nevertheless, there is no change in magnessemia after removal of the parathyroid glands in animals.6 Convulsions with hypomagnessemia have been described in other conditions, such as chorea and pneumonia.5 Hirschfelder 5 recently reported 10 patients with low blood magnesium, who suffered from convulsions or muscular twitchings. Four of these patients had kidney lesions. After single 20 to 25 gm. doses of Epsom salt were administered by mouth to these four, the magnesium in the plasma rose almost to double the normal concentration within four to six hours, and the twitchings or seizures subsided. Hirschfelder concluded that convulsions are relieved by oral magnesium sulphate in patients with renal insufficiency.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"16 63","pages":"213-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40108362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","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}
{"title":"PSYCHOPATHOLOGY","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.280","url":null,"abstract":"per cent. of other psychotics. Blood culture for tubercle bacilli using the methods of Loewenstein and of Ninni and Bretey was carried out with 31 schizophrenics. In all cases the result was negative. The efficacy of the method used was proved by the positive results obtained with it in 30 5 per cent. of cases of known tuberculous infection in animals. The inoculation of 29 blood, 27 cerebrospinal fluid and two brain samples from schizophrenics into guineapigs, which were subscquently treated with an acetone extract of tubercle bacilli, gave negative results. These results indicate that there is no aetiological connection between schizophrenia and tuberculosis.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"280 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913793","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":"NEUROSES AND PSYCHONEUROSES","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.276","url":null,"abstract":"[121] A note -on the persistence of moods.-E. N. KENDREW. Brit. Jour. Psychol., 1935, 26, 165. TiE experiment here dealt with was devised to test the possibility of achieving a technique for measuring the degree of persistence of moods experimentally aroused in young children. The 20 cases fell into three groups. In nine disappointment appeared to produce persistent effects of a diminishing order of magnitude; in eight cases the persistent effect was of an increasing order of magnitude; in three cases no noticeable effects could be observed. Ji several cases a persisting conative activity showed itself in general behaviour, but the emotional disturbance had a greater effect on the natural rate of working. The experimental results are shown to fit well with general observations. Interest and fatigue influenced the results in a few cases, while two children, at least, delayed the effect of disturbance by a determined effort.","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"s1-16 1","pages":"276 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63913715","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":"Mescalin and Depersonalization: Therapeutic Experiments.","authors":"E Guttmann, W S Maclay","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"16 63","pages":"193-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40108361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Alcoholic Polyneuritis associated with Korsakow Syndrome.","authors":"L Minski","doi":"10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.219","url":null,"abstract":"Case 1.-Patient D.D., at. 25, married, was admitted on January 15, 1934. The history given was that the patient had had one pregnancy which was uneventful. She became pregnant for the second time, and during this pregnancy suffered from cedema, albuminuria and raised blood pressure. Partly owing to these symptoms and partly owing to the fact that the presentation was a breech, labour was induced on October 4, 1933, at another hospital. The labour was difficult, and almost immediately patient developed a temperature of 1030 F. as a result of pelvic infection. This lasted until November 14, when the temperature subsided and she appeared to be progressing favourably until the middle of January, 1934. At this time, she became confused, emotionally unstable, and restless, and was transferred to the Maudsley Hospital. On admission, she was elated and euphoric, said everything was lovely and addressed everyone as ' darling.' She talked in a rambling manner, was restless, confused, and disorientated. She was also incontinent of urine and fieces. Physically she was thin and ' drawn ' and complained of pain in the left leg. The quadriceps on both sides together with all the muscles below the knees was paralysed. The paralysis was of a flaccid type and was more complete on the right than the left side. Patchy anaesthesia to pinprick was present up to the level of the umbilicus, and sensation of touch, temperature, deep pressure and joint sense was abolished in both feet, more so on the right than the left side. She also complained of paresthesie in the form of ' pins and needles' in both feet. The left leg was swollen and cedematous. There was a zone of hyperaesthesia to pinprick present at the level of the umbilicus. Fine horizontal nystagmus to both sides and some slight weakness in the arms were present. The deep reflexes in the legs were completely absent and were markedly sluggish in the arms. A blood count showed 3,745,000 red cells with a colour index of 0-75 and slight anisocytosis and poikilocytosis, the white count being normal. The pelvic organs revealed nothing abnormal. A few days after admission she developed copious diarrhoea with as many as 20 stools a day. The blood pressure was low (86/50) and tachyeardia was present. Repeated bacteriological examination of the stools was negative. The diarrhoea persisted until February, 1934, and until then she was given intravenous salines and glucose. At this time she complained of paresthesia in the hands and the pulse rate had risen to 130. Mentally she remained confused and disorientated and at times was noisy and restless. In addition confabulation was present. A blood count at 21'3","PeriodicalId":50117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology","volume":"16 63","pages":"219-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jnnp.s1-16.63.219","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40108363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}