American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 5
- May 1975
Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages501–505The author discusses "dangerousness to others" as a ground for involuntary civil commitment of the mentally ill, suggesting that there is often a confounding of legal/public-policy concerns and mental health concerns in issues related to this concept. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.501Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages513–516A survey of 131 psychologists, psychiatrists, and nonpsychiatrist physicians taken to determine what doctors of medicine should know about psychiatry revealed that of the 21 topics assessed, there was a significant intergroup agreement on the 10 most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.513Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages517–522The authors describe the evaluation of a treatment model that makes use of the community to help mentally ill patients acquire necessary coping skills. This approach is based on the assumption that deficiency in coping skills and aggressive dependency are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.517Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages523–528The author has used individually prescribed token economies with about 5 percent of his acute psychiatric inpatients. Previous reports have dealt primarily with chronic patients. Case reviews indicated that patients chosen for these programs fell into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.523Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages529–531The 143 cases of lithium use during pregnancy collected by the Register of Lithium Babies show that infants exposed to lithium appear to have a higher than expected ratio of cardiovascular anomalies to all anomalies and may have an increased risk of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.529Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages532–534Among 1,152 psychiatric inpatients who received a phenothiazine, a butyrophenone, or a thioxanthene, 116 developed dystonia attributed to one or more of these drugs. The highest frequencies of dystonia occurred among recipients of haloperidol and the long-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.532Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages534–535The author reports an atypical case of tardive dyskinesia in a 19-year- old male who had been given relatively low dosages of neuroleptic medication for less than 6 months. The symptoms cleared within 3 months after the medication was discontinued. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.534Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages536–538Neurological examinations of 27 outpatients receiving lithium carbonate maintenance therapy for recurrent affective illness revealed that most of the patients receiving lithium for more than 8 months had cogwheel rigidity. The data suggest a positive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.536Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages538–540The authors report the case of a psychotic preschool child who manifested a seizure disorder while on imipramine treatment. They note that according to his history and physical exam, the child fell within a group which seems predisposed to this side ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.538Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages540–542The authors studied the monthly electrocardiographic tracings of 27 children with normal cardiovascular function receiving imipramine therapy for enuresis. They found no substantial EKG changes in any of these children, who were receiving doses of 25 to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.540Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages542–545The authors report seven cases of electrocardiographic abnormalities occurring in 7- to 10-year-old children receiving imipramine pharmacotherapy for behavior disorders. Three of the children evidenced a first-degree atrioventricular block. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.542Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages546–547The authors asked that this paper be published as a comment on the preceding article by Dr. Winsberg and associates, who approved the suggestion.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.546Publication date: 01 May 1975
Page548The author reports on four patients, all women, who developed conjunctival hypersensitivity during diazepam treatment. This hypersensitivity is self-limited after diazepam treatment is discontinued. The author suggests that conjunctival hypersensitivity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.548Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages549–551Inpatient crisis intervention units have many of the characteristics of medical/surgical intensive care units. The author believes that the environment of these psychiatric intensive care units serves as an important source of stress and may increase the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.549Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages552–553The author describes the case of a middle-aged man who was admitted twice to a psychiatric hospital with depression. On the second admission, his mental state improved following treatment for thyrotoxicosis. The author emphasizes the importance of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.552Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages554–556The authors found that 14 individuals who had attempted suicide by self- immolation all had psychiatric illness (most were psychotic), and many had religious preoccupations. There was a reversal of the usual male to female ratios for burn injury and for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.554Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages557–560Three mechanisms (eidetic imagery, high-speed calculation, and substitute compensation for normal learning) were investigated and rejected as possible explanations for the calendar-calculating ability of a particular idiot savant. Reaction times for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.5.557Publication date: 01 May 1975
Pages560–562Six patients with tardive dyskinesia were treated with lithium carbonate in an open clinical trial. Evaluations using a new tardive dyskinesia rating scale showed statistically significant improvement in dyskinetic movements while the patients received ...
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Pages569-a–569The observations reported in Dr. William Thornton's letter to the editor on page 302 of the March issue of the Journal were incorrectly linked to his work with the University of Chicago Drug Research Clinics. This work was in fact undertaken when Dr. ...
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