Review of Psychology and the nurse, Nursing mental diseases, and Hints to probationer nurses in mental hospitals.

1940 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoebe Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Diseases

The Cholesterol Content of the Cerebro-spinal Fluid in Certain Mental Diseases

1926 ◽  
Vol 72 (296) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. T. Poynder ◽  
J. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Cholesterol Content ◽  
County Council ◽  
Spinal Fluid ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Subject

The presence of cholesterol in the cerebro-spinal fluid has been the subject of investigation by various observers. The following communication is based on a series of observations conducted at the Pathological Laboratory of the Maudsley Hospital, on specimens of cerebro-spinal fluid obtained from patients in the mental hospitals of the London County Council.

John Fraser, M.B., C.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.Edin.

1925 ◽  
Vol 71 (293) ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
W. C. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Personal Interest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Subject

In the department of mental diseases some men have won distinction by their writings, such as Pinel, Esquirol, Guislain and Morel on the Continent, or like Laycock, W. A. F. Browne, Winslow, Maudsley, Bucknill, Skae and Clouston in our own country, but the subject of this obituary gained the respect and esteem of his medical brethren and the public by his unfailing courtesy, his resolute devotion to duty, his kindly disposition toward the officials of mental hospitals and his generous personal interest and sympathy with the patients, whose welfare he ever strove to ameliorate. Moreover these were qualities which found ample scope throughout the length and breadth of Scotland in his long official connection with the General Board of Lunacy as Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.

Syphilis in Mental Hospital Practice

1937 ◽  
Vol 83 (345) ◽  
pp. 472-477
Author(s):  
David Prentice
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
General Population ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Occurrence Rate ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Hospital Practice ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
One Year

Dr. Prentice said that syphilis, in its incidence, diagnosis and treatment, presented, in mental hospital practice, problems which differed from those met with in dealing with the disease in general practice and in V.D. clinics. In the former its incidence was higher than in the general population, and that was largely because many of those whose nervous system had become affected by the later stages of the infection ultimately developed a psychosis. Drugs which were efficacious in somatic syphilis showed but little therapeutic effect in the treatment of the nervous system when affected by syphilis. There was a wide variation in the syphilis occurrence-rate among new admissions to mental hospitals, namely, from 5% to 31%; there was no doubt that incidence varied in different parts of the country; for instance, at Whittingham Mental Hospital, Lancashire, the male admissions in one year showed 21–9% with syphilis, and females 8–9%. At Narborough in the past two years—using the same methods of diagnosis—the positive males were only 7–7%, the females 4–6%. It was difficult to estimate reliably what proportion of the general population suffer from syphilis, but comparison of the figures of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases with those given by numerous workers in mental hospitals—excluding cases of general paresis and meningo-vascular syphilis—showed that the part played by syphilis in the ætiology of ordinary mental diseases must be a very small one. Bearing in mind the body-mind relationship, any toxic or infective process which could be a factor in the ætiology of mental illness should be dealt with. Even if the disease were predominantly psychogenic, all possible physiogenic factors should be eliminated or dealt with.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Review of Compulsory Admission to Mental Hospitals.

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-484
Author(s):  
William T. McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Compulsory Admission ◽  
Mental Hospitals
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