American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 134
- Number 12
- December 1977
Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1335–1348Recent research in the neurobiology of dreaming sleep provides new evidence for possible structural and functional substrates of formal aspects of the dream process. The data suggest that dreaming sleep is physiologically determined and shaped by a brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1349–1355The author examines the reasons that have been offered in support of a pressimistic appraisal of psychiatry's future. The consequences for psychiatry of increasingly detailed knowledge of the interaction of psychological and physiological processes are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1349Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1356–1360The author believes that recent legal decisions against psychiatrists (including class action suits) have their genesis in writings by sociologists and other behavioral scientists, including psychiatrists, who have examined psychiatry in the context of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1356Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1361–1366The author reviews concepts important to understanding the emotional causes of sudden death, which occurs in the psychological setting of hopelessness, powerlessness, and intense emotions. The cardiovascular system responds to stress in a way that makes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1361Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1367–1370The authors found a high prevalence--43.4% of tardive dyskinesia in a sample of psychiatric outpatients, a population previously thought to be at nominal risk for development of this syndrome. There was no significant relationship between the presence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1367Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1371–1375Sulpiride is a new and chemically different neuroleptic. In a study of 16 severely ill schizophrenic patients, this compound displayed definite evidence of antipsychotic activity while producing few adverse reactions. The relative absence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1371Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1376–1380During July and August 1975 a large number of patients at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital experienced unexplained respiratory arrests, and there were six deaths. These were later shown to be due to the deliberate injection of pancuronium ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1376Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1381–1385The authors compared several aspects of early sexual experience found in two earlier studies of prostitutes with results of research on "normal" women. The prostitutes had in common many negative experiences not found or found less often in other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1381Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1386–1390The authors studied the patients and community facilities in an area for which a mental hospital phasedown was contemplated. They found that patients who were continuously hospitalized during a 9-month period were highly dependent and judged unlikely to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1386Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1391–1394The authors measured the social functioning of 147 chronic psychiatric patients using a rating scale originally devised for use with the mentally retarded, the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS). They found that social deficits were more widespread and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1391Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1395–1399Two residential therapeutic communities for female addicts--one coeducational and the other all female--encountered serious problems shortly after their formation. The authors found that the male and female staff of the coeducational program had quite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1395Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1400–1404The author recalls this year's anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history of medicine, psychiatry, and psychology and examines their practical and theoretical contributions.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1400Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1405–1407Lithium was used to treat the manic symptoms of affective disorder in three patients with associated organic brain syndromes. In all three cases neuropsychological testing permitted evaluation of the degree of dysfunction during the acute and follow-up ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1405Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1408–1410The authors treated 12 schizophrenic patients who had overt hallucinatory symptoms with intravenously administered naloxone hydrochloride, a narcotic antagonist purported to have antihallucinatory properties. They found no evidence of the effectiveness of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1408Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1411–1414The authors measured plasma levels of norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH), pulse rates, and blood pressures of 81 hospitalized alcoholic patients. Treatment with 500 mg/day of disulfiram (but not 250 mg/day or placebo) resulted in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1411Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1414–1416When the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) was administered to 245 students on two midwestern college campuses, 29% of the students on the small, private college campus and 19% on the large state university campus scored more than 4 points, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1414Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1416–1418The author examines the basic background and definitions of the issues of consent and, more particularly, informed consent to relinquishing the privacy of mental health records. He sets these issues in the context of some of their specific inherent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1416Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1419–1421The author discusses some of the unique problems related to teaching psychotherapy in a community mental health center. These problems arise principally from the diversity of philosophies and backgrounds of the health center staff and the lack of an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1419Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1422–1424The author describes mental health consultation with legal interns in a law school legal clinic. Unique characteristics of this setting are described, including that it is not primarily a mental health area and that the consultees are trainees. Various ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1422Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1425–1427The authors states that the practice of hexing is not just a nearly extinct phenomenon of isolated rural communities of the deep south of the United States but is evident in large urban areas in the northeast and west. He describes the psychological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1425Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages1428–1429The author discusses the quote from Mill's On Liberty that is often cited by libertarians in opposition to involuntary commitment of the mentally ill. This quote has been taken out of context; other statements in the document indicate that Mill excluded ...
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Pages1452-d–1452There were two errors in Figure 1 of "Medical Histories of Delinquent and Nondelinquent Children: An Epidemiological Study" by Dorothy Otnow Lewis and Shelley S. Shanok (134:1020-1025, September 1977). The vertical axis labeled "Hospital Visits" should ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1452-dArticle
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