Psychiatric Battle Casualties from a Biological Viewpoint

War neuroses and Arthur Hurst: a pioneering medical film about the treatment of psychiatric battle casualties.

From 1917 to 1918, Major Arthur Hurst filmed shell-shocked patients home from the war in France. Funded by the Medical Research Committee, and using Pathé cameramen, he recorded soldiers who suffered from intractable movement disorders as they underwent treatment at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley and undertook programs of occupational therapy at Seale Hayne in Devon. As one of the earlie...

The crush syndrome in battle casualties.

Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq.

BACKGROUND The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry. AIMS To delineate the reasons for psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq from the start of build-up of UK forces in January 2003 until the end of October that year, 6...

Person identification from biological motion: viewpoint dependencies

With rigid objects, the visual system shows some degree of viewpoint invariance. Information obtained about an object from one view can be used to identify the object from a novel view. Little is known whether we can also generalize to new views of non-rigid objects, such as human bodies. Here, we examine this question using biological motion. Stimuli were Fourier represented point-light walker...

A pediatric-psychiatric viewpoint on obesity.

ADDRESS: 2125 13th Street, NW., Washington 9, D.C. hyperexcitable, presumably as a result of central facilitation. From this, it seems reasonable to suggest that other nervous mechanisms, including feeding reflexes, may be correspondingly facilitated. Another important reaction essential for normal feeding is movement or locomotion, as animals, including infants, are more restless just before t...