Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T07:55:58.045Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Some Observations on Sodium Amytal Experiments

Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Extract

Sodium amytal (sodium-isoamylethylbarbituric acid) has been used in psychiatry for several purposes; its uses in producing lucid intervals in catatonia are acknowledged (Bleckwenn). Broder employed it for the first time in continuous narcosis; and later, in combination with caffeine, he used it for therapeutic purposes in the treatment of psychoses; Harris, Horowitz and Milch discovered its prognostic value in insulin and cardiazol therapy, and Hermann, its effects in clearing psychogenic amnesias. It gradually lost its interest from the research point of view because sodium amytal (S.A.) appeared to be similar in results to ordinary hypnosis, but in the course of our own observations we found definite differences between the two.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1941 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Broder, (1936-37), Amer. Journ. of Psychiat., 93, 5774.Google Scholar
Harris, Horowitz and Milch, (1939), ibid., 96, 327333.Google Scholar
Hermann, (1938), Psychiat. Quart., 12, 734742.Google Scholar
Layman, (1940), Journ. Gen. Psych., 22, 6787.Google Scholar
Lindemann, , quoted after Hermann.Google Scholar
Tod, (1935), Biochem. Journ., 29, 914918.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.