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Cutis Anserina: Its Significance in the Prognosis of Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Leston L. Havens ,
J. Frank Harty  and
John E. Cawte
Leston L. Havens
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
J. Frank Harty
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Boston Psychopathic Hospital)
John E. Cawte
Affiliation:
Enfield Receiving House, Adelaide, Australia, University of Adelaide, Australia
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The autonomic nervous system activity that has been observed to accompany grand mal epilepsy does not occur consistently with the seizures produced by electric convulsive treatment. The dilated pupils, flushing, lacrimation and gooseflesh which appear during the tonic spasm of the electrically induced seizure, and which are the outward manifestations of the autonomic storm within, are often not readily observed because of their transience; they begin to fade almost as soon as they appear and may be gone with the onset of the clonic spasm. Different patients exhibit them in different degrees and the same individual may show changes in the amount of autonomic response over a course of treatments.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 833 - 839
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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