Gastro-intestinal Motor Functions in Manic-Depressive Psychoses. (Amer. Journ. Psychiat., July, 1931.) Henry, G. W.

[Attempted suicide during depressive (unipolar) and manic depressive (bipolar) psychoses].

Autoimmune disease of the gastro - intestinal tract w RALPH WRIGHT

DURING the past decade it has become widely accepted that the body might, under certain circumstances, react immunologically to its own antigens in a way which is harmful to the organism. The mechanism whereby tissue damage occurs and the relationship between such autoimmune processes and immunological responses provoked by exogenous antigens remains uncertain. It would seem that both circulati...

Autoimmune disease of the gastro - intestinal tract w RALPH

DURING the past decade it has become widely accepted that the body might, under certain circumstances, react immunologically to its own antigens in a way which is harmful to the organism. The mechanism whereby tissue damage occurs and the relationship between such autoimmune processes and immunological responses provoked by exogenous antigens remains uncertain. It would seem that both circulati...

The Depressive Phase of Manic-Depressive Insanity

IT iS to the genius of Kraepelin, whose death in 1926 must have spared him the pain of encountering Nazism, that we owe both the title and our present conception of manic-depressive insanity. This conception embraces far more than the clinical close relationship which sometimes exists between states of mania and states of melancholia. A good deal, in fact, was known about this relationship befo...

Genetics of manic depressive illness.

Manic depressive illness is a common and frequently debilitating familial psychiatric disorder. Efforts to understand the mechanisms of inheritance have been hindered by the complexity of the phenotype, which may range from benign mood swings to chronic psychosis, and by apparently nonmendelian modes of transmission. Early reports of linkage to chromosomal loci have fallen into doubt; however t...