1. A report is given on 47 patients seen during the first 10 months of operation of a multidisciplinary geriatric clinic. 2. Psychological tests were performed on 42 of these patients. They revealed a low average I.Q. and E.Q. of the group as a whole probably due, in part, to the life long low socio-economic status of the patients, and more so to the fact that about two-thirds of those tested showed “organic signs” on psychological tests. 3. In spite of this, only 19% of the group showed clinical signs of organic brain disease. This is taken as an indication of a remarkable capacity to compensate for organic deficits even at advanced age. It is suggested that “personal factors” may be responsible for this capacity. 4. Therapeutic measures to be taken with the different diagnostic groups are suggested.
On oral androgen (9 fluoro-11B-hydroxy- 17 methyltestosterone) had been found to improve recall of logical and meaningful material in 13 senescent people, without raising their total memory scores. Prolonged administration of this substance to the same subjects in the same and a somewhat increased dosage did not improve the previously achieved results. The improvement in memory function paralleled the general beneficial effect which the androgen produced in the subjects. The same results were obtained with a still higher dosage in another group of experimental subjects. Some theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
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