American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 7
- July 1978
Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages792–796Borderline patients were compared with schizophrenic patients, neurotic depressed patients, and a group of patients with differing diagnoses. The purpose of this comparison was to find out whether borderline patients could be discriminated from other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.792Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages797–800In a follow-up study of 150 women who had undergone treatment on an outpatient basis for acute depression, it was found that the most important predictor of their long-term clinical outcome (8, 20, and 48 months after the acute episode) was personality as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.797Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages801–805Neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, anxiolytics, and hypnotics may be excreted in breast milk. Because of the danger to the neonate, drugs such as diazepam, lithium, bromides, reserpine, and opium alkaloids should not be given to lactating women, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.801Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages806–811The authors examined how delusions and other psychotic features influenced treatment outcome with imipramine in patients with primary depression. Global improvement scores indicated that delusions or other evidence of psychosis do not contraindicate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.806Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages812–815The research methodology for a current study of the assessment of family factors as they relate to the development of psychopathology in high-risk children is described. Factor analysis of preliminary data from 83 families led to the construction of 6 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.812Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages816–820The arrest rates of nearly 2,000 psychiatric patients released from psychiatric centers in 1968 and those of nearly 2,000 patients released in 1975 were compared with the arrest rates of a group of 5,000 patients studied 25 years earlier. In general, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.816Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages821–825Knowledge of opiate action in laboratory animals can be of great value in developing a rational clinical approach to the treatment of narcotic dependence. Physiological alterations experimentally produced by narcotics have been confirmed in human subjects,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.821Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages826–830Thirty patients who discontinued private psychotherapy prematurely were evaluated. Factors stemming from the dynamic interaction between the patient and the treatment process were the most common reasons for dropping out, followed by chronic character ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.826Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages831–834Until recently, there were no standardized approaches to the diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in the age group of one week to one year in the United States. This has led to confusion among professionals and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.831Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages835–838Six families are described in which 10 sons were involved incestuously with a natural father (N=4) or step-father (N=2). Father-son incest as a part of the spectrum of child abuse appears to be a more frequent clinical entity than was thought previously.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.835Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages839–841Prompted by an interest in the similarity of brain and tuberoinfundibular systems, the authors studied butaclamol-specific neuroleptic and apomorphine binding in pituitary and striatum after chronic haloperidol and acute apomorphine treatment. Striatal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.839Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages842–844Infectious mononucleosis is usually thought to be a benign disease with occasional neurologic sequelae. Depression, incoordination, a reduction in intellectual ability, and altered EEG patterns were found in two patients; one recovered and the other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.842Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages845–847The authors distributed a questionnaire regarding the assessment of psychiatric residents to 130 directors of residency training programs. Formal examinations were required by 37% of the programs and were being considered by an additional 49%, suggesting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.845Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages848–851The authors describe a children's mental health unit (CMHU) in a general hospital and cite the need for short- and intermediate-term children's psychiatric facilities within the community. They point out the special need for psychiatric inpatient units ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.848Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages851–853The authors neurologically examined 38 patients who had received lithium carbonate for from 3 months to 5 years to determine the presence of extrapyramidal side effects. No patient had received neuroleptics for 3 months before examination. Definite ...
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