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Further Observations on Sodium Amytal Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. Reitmann*
Affiliation:
The Lady Chichester Hospital, Hove

Extract

Derivatives of barbituric acid are in general sedatives, hypnotics and analgesics, but sodium amytal (S.A.) occupies a special position, because of its effect on certain mental and nervous conditions. It produces transient amelioration in catatonic schizophrenia and hypnosis-like conditions in neuroses. The latter is important through the fact that one is able to study hypnosis from a different pharmacological point of view.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1942 

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