RT Journal
T1 MEdical news
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD September 8
VO 209
IS 10
SP 1435
OP 1444
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160230005003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160230005003
AB Hyperbaric Oxygen: Temporary Aid For Senile Minds 
    A series of hyperbaric oxygen treatments have reversed—"for at least 24 hours"—some of the symptoms of senility in 13 elderly hospital patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis, according to a team of investigators in Buffalo, NY.The treatments have allowed the patients to make substantial, though perhaps transient, gains in intellectual functioning. As a result of therapy, four ambulatory patients have been able to return home, says clinical psychologist Eleanor A. Jacobs, PhD, of the VA Hospital and the School of Medicine at the State University of New York.Dr. Jacobs reported the study at the American Psychological Association meeting in Washington, DC. The report was also given at the Fourth International Conference on Hyperbaric Medicine in Sapparo, Japan, by co-author Peter M. Winter, MD, an anesthesiologist at the same Buffalo institutions.Mean age of the patients, all male, was 68. Hospitalization periods ranged