RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 81
patients are selected: only those with recent and
curable cases of neurosis or the milder forms of
psychosis are admitted. Custodial patients are
referred to other hospitals of the London County
Council, but all patients in these institutions are
available to Maudsley Hospital for study.
Investigations which are under way or contemplated
at the hospital include studies of the
possible role of tuberculosis and other infections
in the etiology of dementia praecox, the significance
of disturbances in the sex function in
neuroses of women, and analyses of psychoses
of pregnancy and psychotic disturbances associated
with certain physical diseases. The
primary object of the Foundation's grant is not,
however, the support of these particular studies,
but rather the promotion of psychiatric research
in the principal center for such investigations in
London. The most pressing need of this institution
is trained investigators, and the grant will
be used chiefly toward the salaries of research
personnel. A by-product of the aid will be improved
teaching of psychiatry, for the hospital
offers facilities for undergraduate instruction to
several of the London medical schools, and advanced
courses are held there for physicians who
are preparing for posts in the country's numerous
mental hospitals.
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