Show SLEEP THERAPY IS FOUND TO BE HELP useful in treatment of mental derangement moscow prolonged sleep has been found successful by soviet psychiatrists in the treatment of schizophrenia a mental derangement resulting in stupor and inability to move the treatment has been developed from experiments conducted by the late I 1 P pavlov the soviets unions most noted scientist prof A G ivanov head of the psychiatric clinic ot of the all union institute of experimental medicine is continuing experiments begun by pavlov pavlov explained the condition of patients ill for months and in some cases years and unable to move or speak as the manifestation of a morbid process of inhibition aroused in the nervous system by exhaustion from internal poisoning He expressed the supposition that schizophrenia which arises in the nervous system and in the inhibition which spreads over the motor areas is an expression of the brains self protection against destruction st which threatens the nerve cells as the result of extreme exhaustion ha prof ivanov extended the use of sleep therapy as originated abroad introducing protective measures to eliminate complications of the heart and lungs it was found possible to cause patients to sleep for from ten to twelve days without serious after effects prof ivanov said that results of the treatment were favorable for most of the patients and furthermore it was possible not only fully to avoid deaths but even serious complications pavlov characterized the results of the cure as astonishing the theory of protective inhibition had received strong practical enforcement re |