American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 9
- September 1975
Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages893–900The author notes that the elderly in our society have not been provided with treatment, research, and services commensurate with their needs. These needs are reflected in the increasing incidence of psychopathology, suicide, and poverty with increasing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.893Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages901–906The cost of schizophrenia has been estimated at $11.6 to $19.5 billion annually. About two-thirds of this cost is due to lack of productivity by schizophrenic patients and about one-fifth to treatment costs. The estimate might be considerably higher if ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.901Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages907–910The authors describe three postmenopausal women with agitated psychotic depression, increased water ingestion, and electrolyte values consistent with the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion. They hypothesize that this clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.907Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages911–914The term "medical model" is often used as if it referred to a single, well-understood set of assumptions about psychiatric disorders. Actually, there are at least four different meanings that a person saying "emotional disorders are diseases" might intend ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.911Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages915–918The authors conducted a study of 30 hospitalized children who were referred for psychiatric consultation and 60 hospitalized children who were not. They studied the medical charts of these children and administered a questionnaire including a checklist of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.915Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages919–923The authors describe their experience in carrying out clinical and psychobiological research in a therapeutic milieu setting. The clinical- research meeting, composed of clinical-care staff with secondary research responsibilities, researchers, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.919Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages924–927The authors present clinical material to illustrate the special treatment and management problems posed by different types of mentally ill offenders; they suggest that court-mandated hospital treatment is often destructive and unrelated to the needs of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.924Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages928–931Combining a lightweight telemetric mobility sensing system with nightly EEG-sleep recordings, the authors obtained continuous monitoring of rest-activity cycles among psychiatric patients hospitalized for primary depression or acute schizophreniform ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.928Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages932–937The authors conducted a study of nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) in 125 healthy males aged 3 to 79 by means of EEG recordings to provide normative data on how general the phenomenon is, its range of charateristics, and how it is related to man's sexual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.932Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages938–941The authors studied the amount of understanding that 100 mental hospital patients had a voluntary admission application they signed upon entering the hospital. Only 8 patients were rated as being completely informed of terms of the contract at the time of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.938Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages942–945The authors surveyed the frequency of alcohol use in individuals identified as practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (N equals 126) and a matched control group (N equals 90). No control subjects reported discontinuation of beer and wine use; 40 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.942Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages946–950The authors describe a period in which 13 fires were set by 4 patients on an inpatient service of a state mental health center. Unlike previous patients reported in the literature, these individuals had no history of fire setting, although they did ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.946Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages951–953Oral administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) caused deterioration in the clinical status of seven out of nine schizophrenic men. This change was particularly apparent in the four patients diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics. Such changes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.951Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages954–956The authors administered measures of depression, hopelessness, and strength of suicidal intent to a sample of 112 suicide attempters. The results for the 55 subjects diagnosed as depressive and admitted within 72 hours after their attempt were compared ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.954Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages957–959The author examines the influence of psychic factors on kidney transplant rejection in a patient who suffered emotional trauma. As an adolescent, this man had reacted to the death of his father with an incomplete mourning response and had coped with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.957Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages960–962The authors measured steady-state protriptylive levels in 12 outpatients undergoing treatment for depression. The steady-state level of protriptyline was surprisingly high compared with levels obtained when other tricyclic antidepressants were prescribed. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.960Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages962–964The authors report the results. of a computerized psychodiagnostic assessment of 19 males and 1 female seeking sex-reassignment surgery. The most pervasive finding was hysterical personality trend (13 of 20 cases). Twelve patients exhibited psychotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.962Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages965–966The author conducted two trial studies to evaluate the use of oxprenolol in the treatment of symptoms resulting from environmental stress. Results indicated that on a three-times-a-day regimen, 80 mg of oxprenolol was superior to 20 mg of oxprenolol and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.965Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages967–969The author critically evaluates the article "Dominance and Sexual Behavior: A Hypothesis," which appeared in this journal last year and hypothesized that "male dominance facilitates male-female copulatory behavior while female dominance inhibits it." He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.967Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages970–972The author reports a study of five generations of a family in which several members had unipolar depression responsive to tricyclic medication. He concludes that genetic factors play an important role in this disorder and emphasizes the need for ...
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