Clinical Neuroscience - 1959;12(10)

Clinical Neuroscience

OCTOBER 01, 1959

[Vascular mechanisms in the pathological variations of subacute progressive panencephalitis]

TARISKA István

[On the basis of 15 clinically and pathologically reviewed cases, the author considers that there is no firm basis for distinguishing between Dawson's inclussios, Pette-Döring's pan-, and van Bogaert's subacute sclerotoid leukoencephalitis and therefore proposes the name subacute progressive panencephalitis. The disease (group) has a wide spectrum of pathological variation and is not considered to be a direct consequence of the underlying inflammatory process, but a product of complicating anoxic-vascular disorders. By presenting 3 cases, he demonstrates anoxic-vascular effects ranging from a few days of cortical erythema and transudative damage to several years to months of ulegyria. With respect to the formal genesis of anoxia-vascular injury, he considers the complex interplay of cardiac, circulatory, respiratory, and local intracranial cavity vascular tamponade, which may be compounded by cytotoxic effects due to liver dysfunction.]

HUN 1959;12(10)

Clinical Neuroscience

OCTOBER 01, 1959

[Changes in protein fractions in blood after partial removal of the cerebral cortex and lesion of certain areas of the central nervous system (hypothalmus, formatio reticularis)]

MAROS Tibor, KOVÁCS Endre, MÓDY Jenő, LÁZÁR László

[The authors have observed how damage to different parts of the central nervous system causes changes in the protein fractions in the blood. Their experimental studies in 57 dogs show that partial removal of the cerebral cortex produces only temporary changes in this respect. These transient changes are not specific but are rather a consequence of the general trauma associated with surgery. Injury to the hypothalamus results in permanent shifts in alpha and beta globulins, while electrical disruption of the formatio reticularis adjacent to the raphe mesencephali produces absolute and relative decreases in albumin and significant increases in alpha 2 and gamma globulin fractions. The authors conclude that there are centres and pathways in the hypothalamus and along the brainstem formatio reticularis that control protein metabolism, the closer delineation of which requires further research. ]

HUN 1959;12(10)

Clinical Neuroscience

OCTOBER 01, 1959

[Right complete hemihypertrophy with schizophrenia associated with schizophrenia]

ADORJÁNI Ferenc, BŐHM Tivadar

[Hemihypertrophy (hh.) is the enlargement of one half of the body relative to the other half. In complete hh., this enlargement extends from the skull to the toes and includes bones and soft tissues. The first clinical study of hh. was published by Wagner (37) in 1839, followed by Friedberg (6) in 1867 who described crossed hypertrophy (h.). Gesell (9, 10) reviewed the literature of cases published up to that time in 1921 and 1927, followed by Lenstrup (20), Wakefield and Hines (38), Petre (26), Schwartzmann and colleagues (36), E. Toussaint Aragon (1), Sayer and Fatherre (32), Rugel (29), Ward and Lerner (39) described their patients. According to Sylver and Gruskay (34), no fewer than 130 cases were reported in the literature up to 1957. ]

HUN 1959;12(10)

Clinical Neuroscience

OCTOBER 01, 1959

[The role of cash benefits for people with mental illness therapeutic employment of mental mental patients]

TÖRÖK István, LESCH Gyula

[It is a long-established fact that reasonable employment is beneficial for the mentally ill. Institutions with a long tradition, such as the Soviet institutions or the Polish Berenice, the East German Goerden, the West German Gütersloh and Lengerich, the Czechoslovak institutions and many others, have developed therapeutic occupations and systems based on experience. Here, unfortunately, therapeutic employment is still in its infancy. But it would also be of benefit to the national economy. ]

HUN 1959;12(10)

Clinical Neuroscience

OCTOBER 01, 1959

[Book review]

PERÉMY Gábor

[The author reviews Klinische Psychotherapie innerer Krankheiten.]

HUN 1959;12(10)