American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 2
- February 1978
Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages157–163The author points out that psychiatric ethics are coming under increasing critical scrutiny by psychiatrists and by those outside of the profession. On the basis of an examination of APA Ethics Committee records, he concludes that criticism of psychiatry'...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.157Article
Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages164–173Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.164Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages165–173Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.165Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages174–177The author notes that psychiatrists alone can change the public image of their profession. This image has been tarnished in the past by grandiose claims of psychiatry's ability to right social wrongs, by the perceived lack of scientific underpinnings of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.174Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages178–184In a national collaborative study to assess the neuropsychological status of 151 polydrug users, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery showed deficits in 37% two to three weeks after they entered treatment and in 34% at three-month follow-up. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.178Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages185–190The authors provided psychiatric consultation to medical personnel in charge of a Vietnamese refugee camp in California. Although the emergency measures that supplied clothing, food, shelter, and medical care to nearly 60,000 refugees were immensely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.185Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages191–197The authors conducted a study of nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) in 35 diabetic men, aged 33 to 70, who complained of impotence and in 35 age-matched control subjects. EEGs and other measurements showed that the diabetic men as a group exhibited ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.191Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages198–201The author suggests that research on the prediction of violent behavior does not support the unqualified conclusion that the accurate predictions of violence is impossible under all circumstances or that psychiatrists, psychologists, and others will ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.198Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages202–205The authors studied 62 emergency room patients with violent ideation or action to assess the feasibility of predicting assaultive behavior. Although the likelihood of future violent acts could not be predicted accurately, they discovered that a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.202Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages205–209The authors sent out questionnaires regarding knowledge of statutes governing emergency involuntary hospitalization to psychiatrists in Connecticut and in the District of Columbia. Fifty-five percent (N=207) of the sample in Connecticut and 25% (N=87) of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.205Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages209–213In a sample of 89 patients referred from a psychiatric service emergency room, the author investigated variables related to completion and noncompletion of the physician's recommendation. The completers (58%) tended to be older and more educated, to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.209Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages213–216Of 167 patients appearing in the psychiatric emergency room of a metropolitan hospital, 68 were categorized as significantly depressed by the Zung depression scale but only 43 were considered depressed by clinician-interviewers. The use of a patient self-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.213Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages217–219The authors studied 21 schizophrenic and borderline college students who achieved B+ or higher grade averages and underwent psychotherapy while in college. High academic achievement was found to provide relief from feelings of worthlessness and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.217Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages220–222Habitual smokers smoked either nicotine-free cigarettes or cigarettes containing a known amount of nicotine and then engaged in a free-recall task. Nicotine subjects recalled significantly fewer words on a 75-item list during three successive trials of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.220Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages223–226The author found abnormalities of ocular movement including abnormal blink rate and blink reflex to glabellar tap in 34 of 44 medication- free schizophrenic patients. It is not clear whether these signs represent part of the pathology of schizophrenia or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.223Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages226–229Although emotional blunting has always been considered a core symptom of schizophrenia, it has been excluded from recently developed sets of diagnostic criteria because of its alleged unreliability. The authors describe a brief rating scale for emotional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.226Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages229–231The author describes two borderline inpatients with assaultive behavior that was not controllable by medication. These patients use splitting to separate all-good and all-bad part representations, which hinders tolerance of ambivalence and control of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.229Article
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Publication date: 01 February 1978
Pages258-a–258There was an error in the obituary of David M. Levy, M.D., in the August 1977 issue. The first sentence of the second paragraph on page 934 should read as follows: He was director of the Institute of Juvenile Research (the first of the modern child ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.258-aPublication date: 01 February 1978
Pages258-b–258There was an error in the title of table 1 in "Psychiatric Disturbances Associated with Erhard Seminars Training: II. Additional Cases and Theoretical Considerations" by Michael A. Kirsch, M.D., and Leonard L. Glass, M.D., which appeared in the November ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.258-bPublication date: 01 February 1978
Pages258-c–258The December 1977 issue contained an error in "Patient Responsibility and the AMA Discharge: A One-Year Follow-Up Study" by David J. Withersty. The last sentence of the third paragraph on page 1443 should read as follows: Thirty patients had been ...
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