American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 134
- Number 7
- July 1977
Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages736–741Pluralism 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" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.7.736Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages742–747Although 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.134.7.742Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages748–751Borderline 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.134.7.748Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages752–755The 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.134.7.752Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages756–758The 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.134.7.756Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages759–762The 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.134.7.759Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages763–768The 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.134.7.763Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages769–774The 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.134.7.769Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages775–781The 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.134.7.775Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages781–784The 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.134.7.781Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages785–789The 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.134.7.785Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages790–793Older 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.134.7.790Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages794–797The 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.134.7.794Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages798–801Although 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.134.7.798Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages801–804Previous 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 ...
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