Pluralism is necessary in psychiatry to compensate for the errors and biases characteristic of the equipment we use to appraise clinical "reality"--our own perceptual-cognitive apparatus. Our attention to clinical situations is skewed: we notice "data" ...

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Auditory evoked potentials and selective attention in formerly hyperactive adolescent boys

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages742–747

Although many of the prominent symptoms of minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) subside during pubescence, adolescents who had MBD during childhood may have persistent neuropsychological dysfunctions. The authors studied the auditory average cortical evoked ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.742

Borderline rage and the therapist's reponse

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages748–751

Borderline patients often engender feelings ranging from apathy to rage in therapists. The author views the borderline patient's rage as defensive against fear of total negation resulting from projective identification with hostile part objects. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.748

Collaboration between Ohio psychiatrists and the legislature to update commitment laws

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages752–755

The author describes how the Ohio Psychiatric Association (OPA) worked with the state legislature to ensure that the revision of Ohio's laws regarding involuntary commitment of the mentally ill reflected what psychiatrists felt to be in the best interests ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.752

The prevention of tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages756–758

The publication of numerous articles on tardive dyskinesia has had little effect on the excessive use of neurolepic drugs in psychiatric populations. If current prescribing patterns are not drastically changed, larger numbers of patients will be afflicted ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.756

Clinical research techniques in tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages759–762

The authors have developed standardized assessment and control techniques designed to provide objective measures of tardive dyskinesia in patients progressing through an experimental treatment program. Standardized videotaping is carried out and blind ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.759

Effects of dopamine agonists in tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages763–768

The authors used a combined behavioral and neuroendocrinological strategy to investigate the relevance of abnormalities in the brain dopaminergic systems to the pathophysiology of tardive dyskinesia by assessing the effects of apomorphine, a directly ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.763

Cholinergic influences in tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages769–774

The authors conducted placebo-controlled double-blind studies of physostigmine, choline, and deanol in 12 patients with tardive dyskinesia. Physostigmine and choline both had a positive therapeutic effect on tardive dyskinesia, but the authors note that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.769

Electrophysiological (H-reflex) studies of patients with tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages775–781

The authors studied the H-reflex recovery curves of 31 schizophrenic patients with tardive dyskinesia in response to acute administrations of apomorphine, amphetamine, or physostigmine and compared them with curves of chronic schizophrenic patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.775

The relationship between parkinsonism and tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages781–784

The author analyzes parkinsonism and hyperkinesia in psychiatric patients with tardive dyskinesia before and during treatment with alpha- methyl-p-tyrosine (AMPT, a dopamine antagonist), biperiden (an acetylcholine antagonist), and baclofen (a GABA ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.781

Paradoxical response to dopamine agonists in tardive dyskinesia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages785–789

The authors conducted an extensive pharmacological analysis of a patient severely affected by tardive dyskinesia. No drug treatment gave lasting clinical improvement. Several agents recently recommended for this condition, dimethyl aminoethanol, clozapine,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.785

Relationship between age and tricyclic antidepressant plasma levels

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages790–793

Older depressed patients treated with imipramine or amitriptyline developed higher steady-state plasma levels of imipramine, desipramine, and amitriptyline. In imipramine-treated patients this finding was associated with a decreased rate of drug ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.790

Anhedonia and schizophrenia

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages794–797

The authors administered semi-structured interviews to 187 psychiatric inpatients to determine the role of anhedonia in schizophrenia. The interviews were taperecorded and then given blind ratings for anhedonia on a 7-point scale. Schizophrenic patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.794

Behavioral toxicity and equivocal suicide associated with chloroquine and its derivatives

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages798–801

Although the antimalarial agents chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and amodiaquine are widely used to treat a variety of medical conditions, their behavioral toxicity and lethality are not generally recognized. Therapeutic doses sometimes cause psychosis, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.798

Social adjustment profiles of female drivers involved in fatal and nonfatal accidents

Publication date: 01 July 1977

Pages801–804

Previous research by the authors has shown that male drivers involved in fatal and nonfatal accidents can be differentiated from the general population on the basis of background, behavior, and social adjustment. The results of the present study suggest ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.801