Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry: Volume IV: The Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Convention and Scientific Program of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Atlantic City, N. J., June 9–11, 1961

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages xiii-xiii
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov....Pages 3-12
Pavlovianism and Clinical Psychiatry....Pages 13-23
The Traditional and the New in Pavlov’s Theory of “Higher Nervous Activity”....Pages 24-28
Salivary Conditional Reflexes in Man....Pages 29-37
The Conditional Psychogalvanic Reflex: Its Contribution to Psychiatric Diagnosis....Pages 38-38
Effects of Muscular Exertion and Verbal Stimuli on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in the Human....Pages 39-42
Awareness of Stimulus Relationships and Physiological Generality of Response in Autonomic Discrimination....Pages 43-53
Application of Conditioning Procedures in the Study of Aging....Pages 54-57
Early Trauma as Revealed by Performance During Initial Conditioning....Pages 58-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Fixed Action Pattern: Empirical Properties and Theoretical Implications....Pages 69-85
Ethology and Psychology....Pages 86-94
Ethological Concepts and Human Development....Pages 95-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Psychotropic Drugs and Experimental Psychiatry....Pages 111-132
On a Proposed Theory for the Mechanism of Action of Serotonin in Brain....Pages 133-146
The Relationship of Parkinsonism Produced by Drugs to Psychotic Reactions....Pages 147-153
Some Acute and Chronic Biochemical Responses to Electroconvulsive Therapy....Pages 154-169
Treatment of Autistic Schizophrenic Children with LSD-25 and UML-491....Pages 170-179
Children Born to Mothers Maintained on Pharmacotherapy During Pregnancy and Postpartum....Pages 180-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Differentiation of Psychiatric Patients by EEG Changes After Sodium Pentothal....Pages 191-203
Porphyric Psychosis and Chelation Therapy....Pages 204-217
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Psychophysiological Patterns in Chronic Schizophrenia....Pages 218-233
Affective Change in Thyrotoxicosis and Experimental Hypermetabolism....Pages 234-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Metabolic Effects of Psychoactive Drugs....Pages 247-256
Interaction of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors with Imipramine and Similar Drugs....Pages 257-265
Correlation of the Cerebral Biochemical and Functional Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor Antidepressants....Pages 266-277
Studies on Mescaline XII: Effects of Prior Administration of Various Psychotropic Drugs....Pages 278-287
Effects and Interactions of Imipramine, Chlorpromazine, Reserpine and Amphetamine on Self-Stimulation: Possible Neurophysiological Basis of Depression....Pages 288-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Neural Correlates of Psychophysiological Developments in the Young Organism....Pages 313-328
Studies of Plasma Protein Factors that may be Involved in Psychoses....Pages 329-346
Behavioral Adaptations After Parietal Cortex Ablation in the Neonate Macaque....Pages 347-361
Disordered Perception of Simultaneous Stimulation of Face and Hand: A Review and Theory....Pages 362-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-385