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Volume 117 - November 1970

Contents

Page 6 of 16

Sleep, Consciousness, and Dreams

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World Technique

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Research Article

  • Serum Vitamin B12 Levels in Indian Psychiatric Patients

  • V. S. Jathar, S. P. Patrawalla, D. R. Doongaji, D. V. Rege, R. S. Satoskar
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 January 2018, pp. 699-704

  • It is known that pernicious anaemia is sometimes associated with mental symptoms which improve following vitamin B12 therapy (Eilenberg, 1960; Holmes, 1956; Smith, 1960). Further, it has been pointed out that such mental symptoms can occur years before the development of anaemia and no definite relationship exists between them and the severity of anaemia (Smith, 1960). Cases have been described with a variety of psychiatric symptoms and low serum vitamin B12 levels without any neurological manifestation or abnormality of peripheral blood and bone marrow. Since pernicious anaemia is due to vitamin B12 deficiency it is suspected that B12 deficiency is responsible for the mental symptoms, and serum B12 assays have been advocated routinely in psychiatric patients (Strachan and Henderson, 1965; Hunter and Matthews, 1965).

An Undefendable Source

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A Research Analysis

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  • Royal Medico-Psychological Association Memorandum on Future Patterns of Care for the Mentally Subnormal

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 January 2018, pp. 581-582

  • 1. The Royal Medico-Psychological Association feel obliged to express concern at the Department of Health's apparent lack of consultation with practising clinicians in the mental subnormality field before formulating policy. The Association welcomes experimental schemes with regard to patient care, and considers that these schemes should be properly evaluated in various parts of the country before their acceptance or rejection as national policy.

The Study of the Whole Man

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Law and Liberty

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Psychiatry in Perspective

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A Portrait

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Existentialism

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Research Article

  • Alcohol and Narcolepsy

  • Donald W. Goodwin, Frank Freemon, Benjamin M. Ianzito, Ekkehard Othmer
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 January 2018, pp. 705-706

  • Narcolepsy is a syndrome characterized by recurrent sleep attacks and one or more of the following symptoms: cataplexy (transient loss of muscle tone), sleep paralysis (inability to move in the transition between sleep and arousal), and hypnagogic hallucinations (Sours, 1963). Polygraphic sleep studies indicate that narcoleptics have an abnormal sleep record. Normally, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is preceded by 90 to 100 minutes of non-REM sleep, whereas narcoleptics often have an REM-period at the onset of sleep (Hishikawa and Kaneki, 1965; Rechtschaffen et al., 1963).

Submerged by Ubiquitous Freudian Theory

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Other

Genetics

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An Alternative to Institutional Care

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Existentialism

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Community Care

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Work in Progress

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