RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 85
cal and laboratory departments are well staffed
and there is effective cooperation among the
various units.
Several years ago Dr. de Jong, in collaboration
with Professor Baruk inParis, began a study
of catatonia, one of the frequent signs in dementia
praecox. Dr. de Jong has been able to
produce the phenomenon in cats and to study
its etiology in these animals as well as in man.
The work which he has outlined for the next
few years includes a continuation of these studies
and an investigation of the role of disturbed liver
function in the development of mental disease,
Worcester State Hospital, Massachusetts
Research on Dementia Praecox
The Foundation is also contributing toward
research on dementia praecox at the Worcester
State Hospital in Massachusetts. In continuance
of a one-year grant made to the hospital in 1934
to enable it to extend its studies of this disease,
the Foundation appropriated $33,000 in 1935
toward the support of these investigations^ for
an additional two-year period.
The
studies at the Worcester hospital are
under the direction of Dr. R. G. Hoskins. They
include research on the circulatory disturbances
and metabolism of dementia praecox patients
and investigations of the relation of the supra-
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