Delusional Insanity Resulting from Auditory Concussion

Auditory biological marker of concussion in children

Concussions carry devastating potential for cognitive, neurologic, and socio-emotional disease, but no objective test reliably identifies a concussion and its severity. A variety of neurological insults compromise sound processing, particularly in complex listening environments that place high demands on brain processing. The frequency-following response captures the high computational demands ...

Dr. C. L. Robertson on the Treatment of Insanity Resulting from Injury to the Head

head. Every variety of insanity may result from this exciting cause. Thus, of 482 cases of melancholiat (Lympemanie ou Melancholie), 10 or 2"0 per cent, were the result of injury to the head. Of 588 cases of mania, J 13 or 2-5 per cent, were caused in the same manner. Of 235 cases of dementia,? 3 or 1 -2 per cent, had the same origin. Injuries of the head likewise produce moral insanity?i. e., ...

Insanity from Chloroform

During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards...

Insanity

Diagnosis of Some Delusional Insanity Types in General Practice: Schizophrenia—Dementia Præcox—Paranoidal Groups: A Summary of Important Diagnostic Points

Dr. Hopewell-Ash is a well-known author of a series of small yet valuable treatises on mental disorders, particularly in regard to their early symptoms. The latest of this series is extremely well written and should be of the greatest service for the type of medical man for whom it is intended, i.e., the general practitioner. It is rather lamentable that what Dr. Hopewell-Ash has to say about t...