humulene and Neurotic-Disorders

Fifty persons who had all been heavy cannabis users for a long time were given psychological tests measuring psychomotor, perceptual and other variables. Half of these persons were "Charas" smokers, half "Bhang" drinkers. The duration of cannabis use was 4--10 years, with an average daily dose of 150 mg tetrahydrocannabinol. A matched control group of twenty-five persons were given the same tests. Compared with this group, the cannabis users were found to react more slowly, to be poorer in concentration and time estimation, to have higher neuroticism and greater perceptuo-motor disturbance. The higher neuroticism and greater perceptuo-motor disturbance. The Charas smokers were the poorest performers and also showed poor memory, lowered psychomotor activity, and poor size estimation.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Attention; Cannabis; Dronabinol; Humans; India; Middle Aged; Motor Skills; Neurotic Disorders; Perceptual Disorders; Psychological Tests; Reaction Time; Substance-Related Disorders; Time Perception

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Alcohol Drinking; Anxiety; Cannabis; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Personality; Psychotic Disorders; Scotland; Sex Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Unemployment

A questionnaire on the future aspects of psychiatry was submitted to 234 psychiatrists, 111 other doctors and 78 nonmedical persons, that is to a total of 423 people. These were further classified according to their principal activity in private practice, clinical work, research or other fields. It was found that opinions did not differ materially within these subdivisions. It was particularly notable that over two-thirds of those questioned regard the future with optimism. Similarly, some two-thirds take an interest in futurology. There was general agreement that in 1985 the greatest problem in psychiatry will be psychosomatic disorders, neuroses and toxicomania, in that order. Biochemistry and pharmacology were considered decisive for progress in psychiatry. Over one half of those questioned also thought that in 1985 the most important method of treatment in psychiatry would be pharmacotherapy. More than two-thirds of those polled think that in 1985 a computer will be standard equipment in any research hospital and that, by 1985, psychiatry's standing will be improved as compared with today. As a corollary, the investigation was aimed at establishing to what extent the future-oriented and those-not-so-oriented differed in this opinion poll. Our working hypothesis that of the recipients of the questionnaire those with children are more future-oriented than those without children was not confirmed. But the future-oriented differed from those-not-so-oriented mainly in that they regard the future with optimism.

Topics: Austria; Cannabis; Forecasting; Germany, West; Humans; Legislation as Topic; Mental Disorders; Neurotic Disorders; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Psychotherapy; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Surveys and Questionnaires; Switzerland

Topics: Acculturation; Attitude; Birth Order; Cannabis; Ethnicity; Female; Humans; Income; Language; Malaysia; Male; Mental Disorders; Neurotic Disorders; Personality Disorders; Residence Characteristics; Schizophrenia; Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological; Social Adjustment; Social Change; Social Class; Students; Substance-Related Disorders

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Canada; Cannabis; Divorce; Educational Status; Extraversion, Psychological; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neurotic Disorders; Sex Factors; Single Person; Substance-Related Disorders

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Amphetamine; Cannabis; Female; Germany, West; Humans; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide; Male; Morphine Dependence; Motivation; Neurotic Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Urban Population

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Bipolar Disorder; Cannabis; Chronic Disease; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Humans; Male; Medical Records; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoses, Substance-Induced; Recurrence; Remission, Spontaneous; Schizophrenia; Substance-Related Disorders; Sweden

Topics: Adult; Age Factors; Cannabis; Cerebral Cortex; Child; Drug and Narcotic Control; Family Practice; Humans; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoses, Substance-Induced; Social Problems; South Africa; Substance-Related Disorders; Toxemia

Topics: Adolescent; Alcoholic Beverages; Cannabis; Female; Hallucinogens; Humans; Hypnotics and Sedatives; Juvenile Delinquency; Male; Maryland; Narcotics; Neurotic Disorders; Personality Development; Socioeconomic Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Time Factors; Tranquilizing Agents

Topics: Adult; Alcohol Drinking; Cannabis; Humans; India; Mental Disorders; Neurotic Disorders; Opium; Psychotic Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders

Topics: Cannabis; Crime; Educational Status; Family Characteristics; Hallucinogens; Hospitalization; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Humans; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide; Mental Disorders; MMPI; Neurotic Disorders; Occupations; Parent-Child Relations; Personality; Psychoses, Substance-Induced; Religion; Set, Psychology; Substance-Related Disorders; Unemployment

Topics: Adult; Cannabis; Female; Humans; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Physician-Patient Relations; Social Behavior; Substance-Related Disorders

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Cannabis; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Methaqualone; Neurotic Disorders; Parent-Child Relations; Pentobarbital; Psychology; Rome; Substance-Related Disorders