American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 8
- August 1978
Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages907–912The authors measured cerebrospinal fluid norepinephrine concentrations in manic, depressive, and neurological control patients with and without probenecid administration. Baseline and probenecid norepinephrine values were significantly higher in manic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.907Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages913–916Because they have little parental contact, many children of the very rich lack self-esteem and clear role models, resulting in shallow values and pathological narcissism. Low self-awareness and the absence of great suffering work against therapeutic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.913Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages917–922A slow-release lithium preparation was compared with a standard formulation in normal volunteers and in patients. Pharmacokinetic parameters of normal volunteers were examined after a single dose of each form and the steady-state levels after a b.i.d. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.917Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages923–927The author reviews the impact of neuroleptic chemotherapy on various forms of schizophrenia in the 25 years since the introduction of chlorpromazine in psychiatry. The activities of the different types of compounds are related to the symptomatic and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.923Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages928–931The female supervisor can help the male therapist in training to overcome problems in cross-sex therapy by presenting herself as a role model, providing relevant literature, and sharing her own experiences as a woman and as a professional. By enabling the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.928Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages932–935The runaway centers that evolved in the late 1960s in response to the needs of troubled young people are fulfilling many of the goals of the community mental health center (CMHC) movement. These centers provide their young clients the five basic CMHC ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.932Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages936–939The author treated 12 patients who had demonstrated only a minimal response to psychiatric treatment alone for their obesity with a combination of psychotherapy and an anorectic, phentermine resin. Psychotherapy was directed toward developing an awareness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.936Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages940–944The prognostic significance of signs and symptoms taken individually rather than in diagnostic clusters was investigated in 61 schizophrenic patients seen at 5-year follow-up in the Washington Center of the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. Best ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.940Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages945–948Using strict research diagnosis criteria, the authors found a hospital admission prevalence of schizophrenia of about 6%. Other recent studies yielded similar figures, with correspondingly low figures for the morbid risk of schizophrenia in the general ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.945Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages949–951Prolactin levels were determined in plasma samples obtained before and after administration of apomorphine or L-dopa to otherwise unmedicated chronic schizophrenic patients or control subjects. Basal prolactin levels did not differ in these two groups. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.949Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages952–955The authors compared platelet monoamine oxidase activity in drug-free chronic and acute schizophrenic patients, medicated chronic schizophrenic patients, and normal controls. A significant decrement in MAO activity was found only in medicated chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.952Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages956–959Twenty patients were treated with penfluridol and 21 with fluphenazine for a period of up to 1 year. Penfluridol, an oral neuroleptic administered weekly was as efficacious as fluphenazine administered twice daily and appeared to be superior to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.956Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages960–963The authors evaluated 200 cancer patients, half of whom received betatron therapy and half linear accelerator therapy. The incidence and severity of anxiety and depression were high in both groups; as radiotherapy continued these symptoms tended to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.960Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages963–966Among 83 hospitalized adult psychiatric patients, 22% reported being high caffeine consumers (750 mg or more per day); these patients scored significantly greater on the State-Trait Anxiety Index and the Beck Depression Scale than moderate and low ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.963Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages967–968Alumni from the 1965-1974 psychiatric residency classes at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center were surveyed about their individual practices regarding physical examinations. Ninety-eight of 155 alumni returned the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.967Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages969–971The frequent use of neuroleptic drugs in the treatment of disturbed children and adolescents demands that clinicians be aware of the danger of tardive dyskinesia in this age group. A case history of a 15-year- old boy who developed incapacitating tardive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.969Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages972–974Medical students beginning the clinical years experience a change in routine that results in their spouses suffering the partial loss of a loved one. The author describes the way in which the spouses react to this loss as a grieving process with three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.8.972Publication date: 01 August 1978
Pages974–976The author reports on 7 patients with a primary diagnosis of manic- depressive psychosis who had brief but well-defined episodes of paranoid symptomatology. These episodes apparently represent alterations of psychic defense structure during the dynamic ...
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