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Publications and source records attributed to J Frommer.
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Between 1897 and 1902 the economist and sociologist Max Weber from Heidelberg suffered from a severe depressive crisis with multiple recurrences of its symptomatology in the following years. The biographic background of the disease process is examined. Questions regarding the specific diagnosis are discussed. Furthermore, his work shows that Weber was indirectly deeply concerned with the cultural, historical and social background conditions of depressive experience and behavior in the context of his study on Protestantic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber's definition of modern society as an iron cage, determined by Occidental Rationalism, shows that this cultural background demands a great amount of role conformity from the individual. Weber's theoretical approach should spark interest in the current psychopathological discussion of the characteristic structural features of a depressed personality.
Relative to nosological classification and therapeutic strategies essential Blepharospasm is discussed controversially in Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and other related branches. From an integrative point of view the clinical symptomatic is a result of psycho-social factors as well as organic factors. Two own cases are reported. The diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic core problems are discussed.
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is seldom mentioned in the psychiatric literature and premortem diagnosis is rare. Affective symptoms, agitation, and memory impairment are the core features, which can predate the diagnosis of carcinoma. We report the case of a patient with bronchial carcinoma, whose clinical picture could hardly be distinguished from that of endogenous schizophrenia.
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In recent publications writer's cramp is mostly seen as a "focal dystonia", which denotes a group of organic-degenerative disorders of the basal ganglia. In opposite to this view psychoanalysts have pointed out since many years the psychogenesis of the syndrome. Our investigation starts with the descriptive analysis of three own cases. It will be shown how clinical facts present a complex situation, which allows the hypothesis, that somatic and psychogenetic factors coincide in the pathogenesis of occupational cramps. Finally a proposition is made how empirical evaluation of the hypothesis is possible.
Texts of schizophrenic speakers show significantly more incoherence than those of patients with non-schizophrenic syndromes and normals. In our theory incoherence means a disorder in the implicitly dialogical structure of texts. It is based on deficits in the capacity of taking the role of the other person in social communication. These deficits can be conceived as a common structure of schizophrenic speech disorders and the symptoms of ego-dissociation typically found in schizophrenia. The author supposes, that the deficits in the process of role-taking in social context are caused by fundamental disturbances in self-awareness and self-consciousness of schizophrenics. These disturbances are called Grundverhältnisstörung.
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Transcripts of dialogues with patients showing schizophrenic, manic, depressive or organic syndromes, 15 persons in each group, were analyzed in order to determine their degree of cohesion and coherence. The cohesion of a text is defined by the grammatical and lexical relation between its elements. Coherence, however, means that the sequence of sentences appears reasonable in the context of communicative action. There is a significantly higher incidence of incoherences in dialogues with schizophrenic patients than in dialogues with patients who show manic, depressive or organic syndromes. Schizophrenic language is conceived as a disorder in the implicitly dialogical structure of texts. This can be proven by these patients' inability to find communicative solutions for misunderstandings emerging during the interview.
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The position of the mandibular foramen and its importance to successful inferior alveolar anesthesia has been well documented. The current study attempts to use position of the narrowest AP width of the ramus and the gonial angle as the important parameters in locating MF, rather than using isolated measurements of the bony mandible proper.
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Observations on ninety-six dissections of human parotid glands have been presented, with the incidence, size, location, and histologic features of accessory parotid glands noted. Twenty-one per cent of the dissections revealed clearly detached accessory glands at variable distances from the main gland. There were no appreciable histopathologic differences between the accessory gland and the main gland in the same facial half. Aging changes, such as decreased glandular elements, increased fat, and increased fibrous connective tissue, were not more extensive in the accessory gland than in the main gland. Because of the histologic similarity, pathoses of the main gland could also involve the accessory parotid gland. Failure to remove a distantly separated accessory gland during parotidectomy could be a cause of tumor recurrence. X-ray films and sialograms were examined for visualization of accessory parotid glands and their ducts. Whereas routine diagnostic x-ray films were limited in their usefulness, sialograms provided visualization of accessory glands for diagnostic purposes.
A mini-research program to familiarize dental students with scientific research methods is described. Students who have not been exposed to laboratory or clinical research and who are not familiar with the use of the library and other research resources participate. The gross anatomy laboratory is the setting for the data-gathering stage, although most basic science departments could conduct a similar program. The assigned topics are of a morphologic, observational, and descriptive, rather than experimental, nature. The best reports are selected for presentation at a brief scientific session patterned after meetings of the International Association for Dental Research.
The endocrinologic basis for morphological and biochemical sex differences in the mouse submandibular gland have not been clarified. Previous studies have emphasized the maintenance of glandular differences in adult animals, rather than considering the factors responsible for their developmental etiology. Male CD-1 mice were castrated at intervals between 10 and 50 days of age and killed at 100 days. The quantitative development of granular tubules and the carbohydrate histochemistry of the submandibular glands were compared to untreated males and females. The area of granular tubules increased with age at castration. Nested analysis of variance indicated significant differences among treatments and among sections within individual glands. No group of castrated males had a greater development of tubules than untreated females. Carbohydrate histochemistry demonstrated an increase in carboxylated mucosubstances in the acinar cells and granular tubule cells of castrated animals.
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