Studies of brain dysfunction in schizophrenia.

Russian theory and research on schizophrenia.

“…The Russian findings on the EEC of schizophrenics indicate patterns characteristic of low arousal and drowsy states. There are a small number of similar Western findings although many investigators have failed to find EEC differences between schizophrenics and normals (Brackbill, 1956). This is possibly because Western investigators have not looked for the overflows and constellations described in the Russian literature.…”

Social competence and outcome in psychiatric disorder.

“…This complex of good premorbid adjustment and good prognosis has, in combination with type of onset, been employed to differentiate the reactive from the process type of schizophrenia. This process-reactive distinction has in turn been related to an organic-functional dichotomy in etiology (Becker, 1956;Bellak, 1948;Brackbill, 1956;Finkelstein, 1953;Kantor et al, 1953). The finding that similar complexes of premorbid social competence and prognosis may be found within diagostic groups whose etiology has conventionally been considered nonorganic, e.g., psychoneurotics and character disorders, calls into question the view that such complexes mirror the presence or absence of organic involvement.…”

Heredity, environment, and the question "how?"

“…389-391). Also relevant are the recent researches on neurological and biochemical correlates of schizo-phrenia (9). Owing to inadequate methodological controls, however, most of the findings of the latter studies must be regarded as tentative (19).…”