The purpose of this paper is to describe two cases of a hitherto unknown syndrome superficially resembling myotonia. Detailed studies have helped to separate this syndrome of continuous musclefibre activity from a group of 100 myotonic subjects, and it will be referred to in this paper as the 'syndrome of continuous muscle-fibre activity'. This descriptive label has been chosen, though the more...

In contrast to the frequency with which abscesses occur elsewhere in the brain, suppuration confined to, or extending into, the brain-stem is rare. Cassirer (1902) reported one case of pontine abscess and abstracted 10 from the literature. Further cases were added by Bregman (1906), Lichtensteinand Zeitlin (1936), Gaida (1939), and Roger, Poursines, Roger, and Tamalet (1951). Richland (1952) tr...

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(Brit. 3. Psychiat., February 1965, 195) in which he explicitly states: “¿ The sexual state at termination was reported and that was dl we reported.We did not claim that the shift was permanent― (Dr. Bieber's italics). They did not even attempt to find out how long the shift lasted. Weeks? Months? Dr. Clifford Allen states quite properly that his “¿ successes were confirmed by follow-upâ€...

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" Gen Psychiat/Vol 26, Jan 1972 Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Research/Feighner et a1 5 7 .Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary deprnssion) along wi th the validating r,*idpnce for these diagnostic cate,/,,ries comes from workers outside ,,ti,. group as weU as from those within; i t consists of studies o f both outpatients and inpatients, o f family studies,...