%0 Journal Article
%T Brief attacks of manic-depressive depression
%J Archives of neurology and psychiatry
%D 1929
%A Paskind, Harry A.
%V 22
%N 1
%P 123-134
%X Although descriptions of manic-depressive depression are numerous, there are few reports of a form of the disease which is common and significant. I refer to attacks lasting from a few hours to a few days. The duration of attacks of manic-depressive depression as presented in the literature is usually from a few weeks to several months and even years. Strohmayer,1 however, reported that such disturbances may last for from a few hours to a few days. Stransky,2 Kraepelin,3 White4 and Rosanoff5 gave the minimal duration as a few days, but none of these writers considers such fleeting attacks as common or important. Bleuler6 said that "by way of rare exception individual patients have a tendency to complete their attacks in one or two weeks." In 1901, in a study of patients with cardiac, pulmonary and abdominal disease, Head7 described attacks of morbid depression...   Keywords: Suicide<p />
%G en
%I American Medical Association
%@ 0096-6754
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1929.02220010126011