American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 11
- November 1979
Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1391–1397The author examines the issues surrounding the development and use of videotapes to teach psychiatry. She describes the special capabilities of videotaped material as well as how videotapes are produced; the structure of videotapes that use feedback ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1391Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1398–1402In a follow-up study of children of psychotic mothers, the authors examined a subgroup of outstandingly talented, colorful, and competent "high-risk" children. These children and their mothers were given a variety of psychological tests and were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1398Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1403–1409The author traces the history of the concept of schizophrenic psychoses from Kraepelin's differentiation of dementia praecox from other mental illness and Bleuler's formulation of schizophrenia through the delimitation of the definition of schizophrenia ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1403Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1410–1414Human sympathetic nerves have a high-affinity norepinephrine uptake system. This uptake system is inhibited competitively by chlorpromazine but not by molindone, which suggests that molindone will not interact adversely with guanethidine, an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1410Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1415–1419To devise a system of classifying depression subtypes at intake, the authors administered the Kupfer Detre Scale (KDS-3A) to depressed outpatients at intake and after one, three, and six months of treatment with tricyclic antidepressants or lithium ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1415Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1420–1423Of the 241 lithium clinic patients at the New York State Psychiatric Institute with bipolar I affective disorder, 38 (15.7%) had never been hospitalized or somatically treated for depression. These "unipolar manic" patients had a significantly lower ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1420Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1424–1427The authors compared total night sleep measures and REM sleep architecture values for normal control subjects (N = 36), unipolar depressed patients (N = 36), and bipolar depressed patients (N = 22). The unipolar and bipolar patients had significantly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1424Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1428–1432Right to treatment suits can serve as agents of change in the standards and function of psychiatric institutions. The author evaluated five state psychiatric institutions as an expert witness in right to treatment suits. He found that changes for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1428Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1433–1437The plight of chronic psychiatric patients in the community has led to a major federal effort to resolve fragmented and disorganized care. The Community Support Programs (CSPs) recently funded by NIMH offer the promise of reducing these difficulties by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1433Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1438–1443The authors used an ecological approach to analyze the interaction of ethnicity, environment, personality, and ideology that led to racial intolerance, ethnic strife, and the existence of a self-styled neo-Nazi group in a correctional institution for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1438Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1444–1448To determine drug use or drug abuse status according to DSM-III criteria, the authors interviewed 109 delinquent boys who had been committed to a training school. They categorized each boy as an offender against a person or as an offender against property ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1444Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1449–1453The author examined follow-up outcomes in the first year after treatment in relation to time spent in treatment in the Drug Abuse Reporting Program. Follow-up interviews were completed with more than 3,000 people admitted to drug abuse treatment during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1449Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1454–1457The authors raise the question of whether the directly supervised initial evaluation of outpatients by psychiatric residents influences the quality of patient care. The charts of 78 patients with direct supervision and 78 patients with traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1454Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1458–1460Six patients with moderate or severe tardive dyskinesia participated in a 14-day double-blind crossover comparison of placebo with 50 g/day of lecithin. There were no side effects, and Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) ratings of videotaped ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1458Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1460–1463Steady state intravenous tyramine dose pressor-response tests were administered to a patient with bipolar illness during depressed and hypomanic phases of her illness. The greatest tyramine sensitivity while unmedicated occurred when the patient was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.11.1460Publication date: 01 November 1979
Pages1463–1465Symptom profiles of 157 male and 54 female heroin addicts based on Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores were compared with normative data for 6,000 psychiatric patients by using previously described schizo- depressive and coping-resignation contrast ...
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