Conceptual distance indices as measures of alienation in obsessional neurosis

SYNOPSISA new method for the measurement of alienation is proposed. It is based upon the conceptual distance between people. For each subject, the observed distances between all possible pairs of elements were calculated and compared with the expected distance between two elements drawn at random. The ratios derived in this way were used to examine intra-self alienation and actual self isolation. The obsessional patient is self alienated and isolated. The normal control subject is self and socially integrated.

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Electromyographic Assessment of Dimethylaminoethanol (Deanol) in Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1979.45.2.415 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 415-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Daniel J. Lonowski ◽

F. E. Sterling ◽

Hugh A. King

Keyword(s):

Tardive Dyskinesia ◽

Control Subject ◽

Normal Control ◽

Psychological Functioning ◽

Rating Scales ◽

Emg Activity ◽

Normal Control Subject ◽

Slight Improvement ◽

Oral Dyskinesia ◽

Reversal Design

An ABAB reversal design with matched placebo was employed to assess the acetylcholine precursor, deanol, in the treatment of tardive dyskinesia. Oral dyskinesia was monitored by electromyography in four patients with tardive dyskinesia. A battery of psychological rating scales was also utilized to determine effects of deanol on psychological functioning. Improvement ranged from 35 to 70% dyskinetic symptom reduction in three patients given deanol. The decrease in symptomatology, however, did not reach the level of oral EMG activity observed in a normal control subject. Psychological functioning was generally unaffected, but slight improvement was seen in two subjects.

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A Cineradiography Investigation of Children’s w/r Substitutions

Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders ◽

10.1044/jshd.4204.462 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 462-473 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David P. Kuehn ◽

J. Bruce Tomblin

Keyword(s):

Control Subject ◽

Normal Control ◽

High Speed ◽

Lateral View ◽

Physiological Data ◽

Normal Control Subject ◽

Perceptual Judgments ◽

Target Configuration ◽

Movement Characteristics ◽

Experimental Subjects

Articulatory positioning and movement characteristics were compared between /w/ and intended /r/ productions in three children exhibiting w/r substitutions and one normal control subject. High-speed lateral-view cineradiography was utilized. It was found that only the control subject demonstrated significant differences in lip, jaw, and tongue positioning for /w/ compared to /r/. However, systematic patterns of articulatory variability within and between subjects suggested that the experimental subjects were possibly differentiating between /w/ and intended /r/ even though the articulatory target configuration appeared to be nondiscriminatory. Perceptual judgments of the tape-recorded utterances mirrored the physiological data in that only those intended /r/ productions involving articulatory positioning clearly different from that of /w/ were perceived as /r/.

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Selective Sampling and Orientation of Non-Homogeneous Tissues

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100100238 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 98-99

Author(s):

C. C. Clawson ◽

L. W. Anderson ◽

R. A. Good

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Electron Microscope ◽

Light Microscopy ◽

Random Sampling ◽

New Method ◽

Microscope Examination ◽

Small Areas ◽

Selective Sampling ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Specific Orientation

Investigations which require electron microscope examination of a few specific areas of non-homogeneous tissues make random sampling of small blocks an inefficient and unrewarding procedure. Therefore, several investigators have devised methods which allow obtaining sample blocks for electron microscopy from region of tissue previously identified by light microscopy of present here techniques which make possible: 1) sampling tissue for electron microscopy from selected areas previously identified by light microscopy of relatively large pieces of tissue; 2) dehydration and embedding large numbers of individually identified blocks while keeping each one separate; 3) a new method of maintaining specific orientation of blocks during embedding; 4) special light microscopic staining or fluorescent procedures and electron microscopy on immediately adjacent small areas of tissue.

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Articulatory Behavior Pre and Post Full-Mouth Tooth Extraction and Alveoloplasty

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.2303.630 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 630-645 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Gerald Zimmermann ◽

J.A. Scott Kelso ◽

Larry Lander

Keyword(s):

Control Subject ◽

High Speed ◽

Tooth Extraction ◽

Kinematic Parameters ◽

Experimental Conditions ◽

Mean Values ◽

Articulatory Movements ◽

The Mean ◽

Experimental Subjects ◽

Normal Speech

High speed cinefluorography was used to track articulatory movements preceding and following full-mouth tooth extraction and alveoloplasty in two subjects. Films also were made of a control subject on two separate days. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of dramatically altering the structural dimensions of the oral cavity on the kinematic parameters of speech. The results showed that the experimental subjects performed differently pre and postoperatively though the changes were in different directions for the two subjects. Differences in both means and variabilities of kinematic parameters were larger between days for the experimental (operated) subjects than for the control subject. The results for the Control subject also showed significant differences in the mean values of kinematic variables between days though these day-to-day differences could not account for the effects found pre- and postoperatively. The results of the kinematic analysis, particularly the finding that transition time was most stable over the experimental conditions for the operated subjects, are used to speculate about the coordination of normal speech.

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