American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 127
- Number 8
- February 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1001–1008The authors studied 29 healthy men who habitualy slept nocturnally for long or short periods. The short sleepers were efficient, hardworking, and somewhat hypomanic: the long sleepers tended to be anxious, depressed, and withdrawn. Both groups had similar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1001Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1009–1012Therapists who participated in previous active drug-placebo studies of chronic and acute schizophrenics were rated on the Whitehorn-Betz A-B scale. The ratings were then related to treatment outcome. Patients who had been treated with phenothiazines and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1009Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1013–1018This study attempted to separate the relative roles of experiential and genetic factors in the etiology of schizophrenia by studying the psychiatric and psychological characteristics of a group of adopting parents of schizophrenics and comparing these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1013Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1019–1023Understanding the use of addictive and other psychoactive drugs should be attempted in a variety of frameworks. In this study of alcohol and opium use among the Meo of Laos the author demonstrates that alcohol is employed within rigid social constraints ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1019Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1024–1031In four years' with 168 adolescent male Job Corps patients, the authors found that a warm, supportive therapeutic relationship contributed to treatment success. Sixty percent of the patients were self-referred; these were generally treatment successes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1024Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1032–1039In this study the authors compare the effects of acute and chronic administration of the tricyclic antidepressants imipramine and protriptyline on the turnover and matabolism of norepinephrine in rat brain. The turnover of norepinephrine was decreased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1032Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1040–1044Methadone maintenance treatment programs are increasing in number. The question arises: "Is methadone blockade alone sufficient to rehabilitate narcotic addicts?" Addicts maintained on methadone at the Center for Special Problems had eight ancillary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1040Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1045–1049Approximately 100 chronic schizophrenic patients were examined for drug-induced eye changes. The lens was affected in 36 patients, the cornea in 19. There was a linear relationship between eye opacities and the total intake of drugs. Corneal opacities ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1045Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1050–1054Although its use for this purpose is not well recognized, physostigmine provides an effective and safe treatment for delirium and coma caused by anticholinergic agents such as atropine, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine. The authors summarize the supporting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1050Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1055–1062A comparison of the fate of screened and unscreened elderly psychiatric patients in New York State showed that a very mixed group of patients is referred to psychiatric facilities, but for most of them mental hospitalization is not the treatment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1055Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1062–1066The author describes his experience as a psychiatric consultant to a medical home care program dealing largely with geriatric patients. His participation in the program included psychiatric evaluations in the patients' homes, case consultations, and staff ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1062Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1067–1070A study was made of elderly psychiatrically disturbed patients referred to the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre over a two-year period. The great majority of these patients were able to return home or to the care of their relatives following treatment. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1067Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1070–1075Forty patients on a geriatric ward were divided into four groups. Three groups received a beverage (beer, fruit punch, or fruit punch with thioridazine) in a pub setup in the hospital; the fourth group received thioridazine on the ward. The group that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1070Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1075–1077The author describes the clinical courses of three geriatric patients who had acute toxic reactions to lithium carbonate. He points out that the peculiar variations in serum lithium levels in two of these patients may have been early indications of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1075Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1082–1085The authors describe a program for the education of middle-echelon mental health personnel. They include descriptions of the educational objectives, recruitment problems, and curriculum. The program, which leads to a bachelor of science degree, trains ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1082Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1086–1090The authors report their comparison of socioenvironmental, familial, and genetic characteristics in matched groups of bipolar (manic-depressive) and unipolar patients. While affective illness was present in a majority of the families of both groups, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1086Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1091–1092Dyskinesias secondary to L-dopa often appear similar to Huntington`s disease and to the tardive dyskinesias that are associated with prolonged use of phenothiazines. Pyridoxine can reverse dyskinesias and benefits of L-dopa. A group of patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.8.1091Publication date: 01 February 1971
Pages1092–1095The authors made a triple-blind comparison of placebo, imipramine, and desipramine in severely depressed hospitalized psychiatric patients. They found that both drugs were superior to placebo, that imipramine was the drug of choice in treating these ...
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