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Intensive Cortisone Therapy in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Linford Rees  and
G. M. King
Linford Rees
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals
G. M. King
Affiliation:
St. Cadoc's Hospital, Caerleon
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Cortisone therapy has been claimed to produce favourable results in clinical schizophrenics (Cohn and Karnosh, 1951; Cohn et al., 1953). Rees and King (1952) carried out a controlled investigation on the effects of Cortisone given in moderate doses over a four-day period to a group of schizophrenic patients and found no significant changes in symptomatology, behaviour or in a series of psychological and physiological tests.

In a personal communication Dr. Cohn suggested that Cortisone given in higher doses over a longer period would probably be therapeutically more effective in chronic schizophrenia.

The present paper describes a controlled investigation into the therapeutic effects of Cortisone given in high dosage over a relatively prolonged period.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 102 , Issue 426 , January 1956 , pp. 155 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1956 

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