A NOTE ON TYPE OF ONSET IN RELATION TO CLINICAL TYPE IN GENERAL PARALYSIS

Autor:	Jr. Henry A. Bunker
Rok vydání:	1926
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics General paralysis Clinical type Irritability Fully developed Psychiatry and Mental health medicine Abnormality medicine.symptom Psychiatry Relation (history of concept) Psychology Expansive
Zdroj:	American Journal of Psychiatry. 83:119-123
ISSN:	1535-7228 0002-953X
DOI:	10.1176/ajp.83.1.119
Popis:	1. In a series of 74 cases of general paralysis, the earliest onset of the disease was marked, in 57 (77 per cent), by abnormality in the emotional sphere of one of two forms: Irritability (in 29), or a seclusive and apathetic type of reaction (in 15); in 13 cases there occurred first the one and then the other as an early symptom. 2. Little correlation appears to exist between the type of onset, in this sense, and the clinical type of general paralysis which later develops, save with regard to the "manic" cases of the fully developed disease; for the patients with an "irritable" onset contributed 30 per cent of the "manic" cases as compared with 19 per cent of the latter in the group as a whole, while 100 per cent of these cases had an "irritable" rather than a "seclusive" type of onset when either of these forms of emotional alteration had a place among the earliest changes observed. In this respect the expansive cases did not differ from the group as a whole. On the part of the simple dementing cases t...
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