INTERHOSPITAL CONFERENCE AT UTICA STATE HOSPITAL A conference of the physicians of the up-State hospitals of the New York State Hospital System was held at Utica State Hospital, April 26 and 27, 1933. The conference was arranged by the State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital and was conducted by Dr. Clarence 0. Cheney, director of the Institute. Three sessions were held, the programs of which were as follows : SYMPOSIUM ON ~[ANIc-DEPRE'SSIVE REACTIONS

First Session, April 26, 2 o'clock I. Personality of Persons Developing Periodic Manic Attacks. W. E. Cudmore, M. D., Buffalo State Hospital II.

Personality of Persons Developing Recurrent Depressive Attacks. H. E, Faver, M.D., Buffalo State Hospital.

III.

The Personality of Persons Developing Manic-Depressive Reactions. J. A. Howard, M. D., A. J. Gosline, M. D., and C. J. C. Kennedy, M. D., Utica State Hospital

IV

Prognostic Import of Personality in Manic-Depressive Psychosis. Meyer Gorin, M. D., Rochester State Hospital.

V.

Duration of Hospital Residence with Relation to Outcome of Manic-Depressive Reactions. P. C. Lybyer, M. D., and A. L. Kase, M. D., St. Lawrence State Hospital.

Second Session, April 26, 8 o'clock I. II.

Precipitating Factors in Manic-Depressive Psychosis. Brew, M. D., Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital Order of Birth in Manic-Depressive Reactions. M. D., St. Lawrence State Hospital

M.F.

H. H. Berman,

III.

Trend Reactions in Manic-Depressive Psychoses and Their Interpretation. O.H. Boltz, M. D., Binghamton State Hospital

IV.

Mental Mechanisms in Depression. J.B. Blalock, M. D., Psychiatric Institute

Third Session, April 27, 9:30 o'clock I. Modified Sedation with Secondary ButylzEthyl Barbituric Acid in the Psychoses. Anna A. Gronlund, M. D., Marcy State Hospital

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The Occurrence of Schizophrenic Traits in Manic-Depressive and Schizophrenic Patients and in Non-Psychotic Persons. Carney Landis, P h . D . , and James D. Page, Psychiatric Institute Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure in the Psychoses. M. B., Marcy State Hospital

H. B . Lang,

I~r. The Body Build of Female Manic-Depressive Patients. McKendree, M. D., Utica State Hospital

O.J.

V. Types of Death in Manic-Depressive Reactions. G.A. Graham, M. D., and F. C. White, M. D., St. Lawrence State Hospital VI. Muscle Tonus in Psychotic Patients. S.E. Katz, M. D., Psychiatric Institute