MANIACAL-DEPRESSIVE INSANITY

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...

Maniacal Symptoms in Ascariasis

me one evening held between six men. They stated that, on the pyrexia slightly abating, the patient, who had been quiet in bed till then, began getting up and running about. Examination had to be done with the patient standing and held by the attendants and hence a thorough one was not possible. He was all the time trying to pull himself out of the grip of the attendants and was making the soun...

Insanity

A Priliminary Note on the Pharmacological Study on Reserpine a New Alkaloid Isolated from Rauwolfia Serpentina

Rauwolfia serpentina, Benth, commonly known as Insanity herb has been used for a long time in Ayurvedic System of Indian Medicine. It has been highly advocated as a general sedative in sleeplessness, anxiety neurosia and hysteria and in the treatment of epilepsy, maniacal and acute insanity. Siddiqui & Siddiqui (19321935) studied the chemistry of some of the active principles extracted from the...

Insanity plea: predicting not guilty by reason of insanity adjudications.

Using 35 variables and discriminant analysis procedures, it was found that, of 133 male defendants entering the insanity plea in Colorado, 87 percent were classified correctly into the disposition groups "adjudicated insane" and "convicted." Most positively related to an insanity adjudication were a psychiatric evaluation of insanity and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Negatively related to the i...