Neurological Abnormalities: Their Occurrence and Significance as illustrated by an Examination of 500 Mental Defectives

Further Observations on Neurological Abnormalities in Mental Defectives.

50,000 outside the Law. An Examination of the Treatment of Those Certified as Mental Defectives

Clinical significance of neurological abnormalities in psychosis

Marco M. Picchioni is a clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and an honorary consultant forensic psychiatrist at St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton. His research interests focus on biological endophenotype markers for schizophrenia and he works primarily on the Maudsley Twin Study of Schizophrenia. Paola Dazzan is a clinical senior lecturer at the Insti...

Sterilization of Mental Defectives

1. THAT there should not at present be any revision or re-issue of the pamphlet on Sterilisation (now out of print) issued by the Association in 1923, and containing the conclusions arrived at by the Medical Committee, the Medical Committee in general being in agreement with the views expressed in the pamphlet dealing with the same subject, written by Dr. Tredgold and published by the Associati...

Sterilisation of Mental Defectives

Some months ago, the N.A.M.H. sent a questionnaire on this subject to medical superintendents of Mental Deficiency Institutions in the United States. Amongst the replies received was one of special interest from Dr. Neil Dayton, who is Superintendent of the Mansfield State Training School, Connecticut, and a prominent member of the American Association on Mental Deficiency. His views and those ...