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  Vol. 301 No. 3, January 21, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Contracting Schizophrenia

Lessons From the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919

Commentary by Stuart C. Yudofsky, MD

JAMA. 2009;301(3):324-326.

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SUMMARY OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Psychoses Associated With Influenza, I: General Data: Statistical Analysis

Karl A. Menninger, MS, MD

JAMA. 1919;72(4):235-241.

Menninger presented a series of 100 patients observed at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital from September 15, 1918, through December 15, 1918. All patients had mental disturbances associated with influenza.

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Commentary

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 was contracted by more than 500 million individuals worldwide, between 50 million and 100 million individuals died in just 1 year, and the preponderance of deaths was among 20- to 40-year-olds.1 One of the few silver linings in the dark, devastating cloud of this epidemic has been its value as a probe for elucidating conceptual approaches for diagnosing and treating subsequent psychiatric illnesses among those who were infected and survived. Paradoxically, each advance in the diagnostic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Diagnosing Schizophrenia at the Turn of the 20th Century

Author Affiliation: Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.



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