American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 11
- May 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1351–1357Cellular monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity measured in blood platelets is significantly (45 percent) lower in depressed patients with a history of mania (bipolar patients) than in nonbipolar depressed patients and normal controls of similar age and sex. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1351Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1358–1362Conducting a follow-up study of 23 wrist slashers presented an ethical conflict between consideration of the patients' human and medical rights and the investigators' desire for knowledge to improve treatment. The authors feel that many difficulties now ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1358Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1363–1368The phenomenon of repeated wrist cutting in young women, performed in a nonsuicidal manner, was studied through the use of a control group. Histories revealed a significant incidence of early physical illness and surgery and markedly abnormal patterns of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1363Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1369–1374In order to assess racial attitudes and perceptions of Army life, the authors developed and administered the Racial Perceptions Inventory (RPI) to two widely different military populations (N = 471). The findings demonstrate a significant difference in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1369Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1375–1380A public mental health clinic formerly serving only children and seeking to broaden its service and financial base joined with a consumer advocate, the United Auto Workers, to provide treatment to underserved blue-collar workers. Comprehensive outpatient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1375Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1381–1387The authors used a questionnaire to obtain information on drug use by a group of 167 young psychiatric inpatients and then compared their results with those of a survey of 26,000 college and university students. They found that their subjects showed far ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1381Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1388–1394Little has been published about the major reorganization of state hospitals now occurring in several states in line with a currently popular management theory, management by objectives. If viable, this approach could have profound effects on the role ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1388Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1395–1399The author describes an approach to consultation with core city elementary schools that utilizes the concept of encouraging children to be helpful to each other. This approach necessitates a lateral rather than a vertical structure in the classroom, with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1395Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1400–1408Klinefelter's syndrome is a genetically transmitted endocrinological disorder characterized by a complement of 44 autosomes with an XXY sex-chromosome complex; it is frequently accompanied by neuropsychiatric disorders, although childhood schizophrenia ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1400Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1408–1414The language development of a schizophrenic child was systematically observed from ages two to six. While the child attained increasing intelligibility and a normal score on a test of language development, finer analysis revealed a severe impairment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1408Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1414–1417A sociopsychiatric study of 30 obsessive children and their parents found them not to be at all deviant from the norms of middle-class, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant North America. Both demographically and attitudinally, they conformed to these norms and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1414Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1418–1424The authors conducted a three-week controlled, double-blind (methylphenidate-placebo) study of 31 hyperkinetic boys. Response to treatment was judged on the basis of improvement in pretreatment and posttreatment teacher ratings. Pretreatment measures ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1418Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1425–1431This study assessed the comparative effectiveness of imipramine, placebo, and dextroamphetamine as therapeutic agents for the control of hyperkinetic and aggressive behaviors in children. Behavioral change under the drug conditions was evaluated using a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1425Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1432–1436Employing a recently developed behavior rating scale (BRS), it was found that the factors for aggressivity and for hyperactivity clearly differentiated among children in an outpatient psychiatric clinic, in a special school, and in public schools. In ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1432Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1443–1445The author reviews some approaches to training psychiatrists in mental retardation. He describes a program begun in the District of Columbia to provide consultation for mental retardation. In addition to teaching the physical aspects of retardation, this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1443Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1446–1449The authors describe a network of factors that produce and perpetuate the dumping of patients by the local hospital on the slate hospital system. A change in policy, placing local and state wards under the same administrative authority, alters the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1446Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1450–1454The authors report on three tribally sponsored rehabilitation programs for Indian alcoholics. The programs, which represent a recent development in Indian alcoholism rehabilitation services, have matched their treatment philosophy and methods to the needs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1450Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1455–1456The author draws a correlation between alcoholism and heavy cigarette smoking. He interviewed 130 men who were hospitalized for withdrawal from alcohol and 100 men who were hospitalized for other reasons. Not only did a statistically significant number of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1455Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1456–1459The authors report on a series of depressed inpatients and outpatients who received greater-than-recommended doses of the tricyclic antidepressants for 1,505 patient days. These patients tolerated the drugs with a minimum of side effects and, when tested, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1456Publication date: 01 May 1972
Pages1460–1463A multivariate equation for predicting elopement (unauthorized absence from the hospital) was derived from 3,383 psychiatric inpatients and cross-validated with another sample, using mental status, diagnostic, and demographic data. The rate for correctly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.11.1460Publication date: 01 May 1972
Page1468Page 943 of the February 1972 issue of the Journal contains an error in the article "Schizophrenia in Veteran Twins: A Diagnostic Review" by Martin G. Allen, Stephen Cohen, and William Pollin. In table 4, Concordance Rates of Schizophrenia in Twins, the ...
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