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A proposal to construct three buildings for some 1200 continued treatment patients at Kings Park State Hospital, Suffolk County, was approved at the November meeting of the New York State Postwar Public Works Planning Commission, according to an announcement by John E. Burton, State Budget Director and Commission chairman.
Stanford University, Jan. 22, 1947—A $2400 grant for research in electro-convulsive shock therapy has been received by Dr. Calvin P. Stone, Stanford professor of psychology, from the Committee for Research of the Scottish Rite Fund in New York.
Dr. Stone, who has carried on research for some time on the effects of the shock treatment on the memory and other faculties of human patients, will carry on this phase of the research with albino and wild rats.
The research will be directed at determining the effects of shock therapy on the behavior of rats, which have been determined to be excellent subjects for such experiments in earlier work done by Dr. Stone and his associates.
The effects of the therapy on the mental faculties of rats, on their emotions, their energy, and on what psychologists call the “conative” functions—those in which there is desire, impulse or striving—will be studied under the new grant.
Dr. Stone will be assisted in the experiments by Milton W. Horowitz, Paul Porter, Irwin Katz, and other graduate assistants in psychology.
The Southwestern Medical Foundation in cooperation with the Veterans Administration is offering a three year residency in neuro-psychiatry. Two years of this are divided into eight month rotation periods between the Dallas area and the VA hospital at McKinney