| Autor: |
Hoen, Thomas, Morello, Aldo, O'Neill, Francis |
| Zdroj: |
Psychiatric Quarterly; Jan1957, Vol. 31 Issue 1-4, p696-702, 7p |
| Abstrakt: |
Thirteen patients, nine men and four women, suffering from chronic regressive psychoses, have been treated by significant reductions in body temperatures to a point of cold narcosis for periods of several hours. All of the patients so treated had psychoses in existence for many years with histories of many years of hospitalization. Clinical results in the patients so treated have not been significant, although temporary improvement was noted in a few cases. Studies of physiological response to the lowering of body temperature have been an important phase of this investigation. Complications of a serious nature have not been observed. Although the technique of lowering of body temperature requires expensive apparatus and careful medical and nursing care of the patient, the writers are encouraged by the initial observations to continue this approach to the treatment of schizophrenia by the application of the technique to patients with more hopeful prognoses. It is hoped that the work now being carried out at Central Islip may result in the development of a simplified method, whereby it may become possible to treat the schizophrenic patient with cold narcosis so as to produce a state resembling animal hibernation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full text from SpringerLink