ABSTRACT
Seventy-four patients treated with intramuscular thiothixene and other major tranquillisers were analysed retrospectively. Thiothixene proved to be more effective than the other drugs in controlling acute psychosis.
Subject(s)
Psychotic Disorders/drug therapy , Thiothixene/therapeutic use , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Injections, Intramuscular , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Thiothixene/administration & dosage , Thiothixene/adverse effectsABSTRACT
Two cases of Capgras syndrome are reported. They constitute further evidence that Capgras syndrome is a delusion which could occur in any psychotic state, rather than a syndrome with specific organic pathology.
Subject(s)
Delusions/complications , Schizophrenia, Paranoid/complications , Adult , Delusions/diagnosis , Delusions/psychology , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Schizophrenia, Paranoid/diagnosis , Schizophrenia, Paranoid/psychology , SyndromeSubject(s)
Carbon Dioxide , Dental Care , Desensitization, Immunologic , Oxygen , Phobic Disorders/therapy , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , HumansABSTRACT
The flicker-fusion threshold was determined in 76 patients who complained of depression and who were diagnosed as suffering from either schizophrenia or depression. It was found to be lowered in schizophrenia and lowered further in depression as compared with 28 healthy volunteers. The differences between the three groups were all highly significant with P less than 0.0005 in each case. The flicker-fusion threshold was found to be lowered by intravenous chlorpromazine and raised by intravenous amitriptyline, so it is unlikely that these differences were due to medication that the patients had been taking.
