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V Faust

Publications and source records attributed to V Faust.

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PubMed1975

[Season and psychiatric disease (author's transl)].

Clinical experience shows that certain psychiatric patients have to be hospitalized more frequently during certain periods of the year. We compared the data of the hospitalisation of 17268 psychiatric patients, hospitalized over a period of 13 years (1956-1969) with the time of the year. Schizophrenics are hospitalized mostly during the warm period, least during the cold period, regardless of their sex. The same can be said about the diagnostic subgroups (paranoics, catatonics, hebephrenics, schizophrenia simplex) and the periodic depressions and depressions of involution. Reactive and neurotic depressions and depressions of exhaustion, neurotics (crisis during puberty, neuroses of character, obsessional and anxiety neuroses), arteriosclerotics and psychopaths do not show an even pattern of distribution. Male alcoholics, too, do not show a maximum of admissions. Female alcoholics are admitted more during the warm periods, less often during the cold periods. Drug addicts, too, show a minimum in winter, an even level over the rest of the time of the year. It is suggested that the patterns of admissions for certain psychiatric patients are to be explained by the different sensibility of meteorological factors.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1975

[New medico-meteorological results in mental patients].

Over a period of 13 years the dates of hospitalization of 17,268 psychically sick persons were correlated with the decimal weather classification. Schizophrenics and neurotic depressives were affected particularly by warm westerly weather conditions, exhaustion and involution depressives and psychopaths by easterly weather conditions. Alcoholics and neurotics are more irritated by unsettled weather conditions, drug addicts by weather conditions with warm air advection from the southwest. In schizophrenics, high warm air advections in front of a belt of low pressure are of particular importance. Depressives too, seem to react to rising fronts which are partly combined with fally fronts.

Adjustment Disorders↗