American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 3
- March 1979
Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages273–278The authors review the literature on the rapid neuroleptization (titration) method with I.M. haloperidol. Most of the approximately 650 predominantly schizophrenic and manic patients represented in the studies calmed down rapidly on medication, and some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.273Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages279–282Psychiatric interviews and psychological testing were conducted with 50 members of former members of a variety of religious cults who contacted the authors about the issue of deprogramming. The subjects were divided into four groups: cult members who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.279Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages283–287The lithium carbonate therapy of 13 psychotic schizophrenic patients was evaluated in a placebo-controlled three-week study that was double- blind. Seven of the 13 patients were less psychotic while receiving lithium; 4 of these 7 patients relapsed after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.283Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages288–292In clinical practice the authors observed that many of the delinquent children of psychiatrically impaired and/or criminal parents had remarkably adverse health histories. To test their clinical impression they systematically compared the medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.288Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages293–296The authors assessed bizarre verbalizations elicited from 37 schizophrenic and 16 nonschizophrenic patients. Interviews with subjects indicated that much bizarre schizophrenic language results from patients intermingling material from past and current ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.293Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages297–302The authors conducted a 9-week blind controlled study of the effects of acupuncture on schizophrenic illness in three patients on an inpatient ward of a psychiatric hospital. This paitents were used as their own controls. The authors compared the effects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.297Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages303–307The author describes the increasing focus on regulation and the standards applied to the field of mental health. He discusses four distinct but overlapping types of standards: 1) clinical, 2) practitioner, 3) program and facility, and 4) payment. He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.303Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages308–310The authors compared the correlation between platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and the Paranoia (Pa) scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in several groups. The data suggest that there is a positive association between high MAO ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.308Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages311–313Rhesus monkeys, pretreated with alpha-methyl-para-tryosine (AMPT) and subsequently injected with phenylethylamine (PEA), did not demonstrate the characteristic amphetamine-like PEA effects. However, when AMPT pretreatment was followed with l-dopa and then ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.311Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages314–317To determine whether the pituitary-gonadal deficiency in heroin addicts is related to heroin's effect on the hypothalamus, the authors administered gonadotropin hormone-releasing hormone (GnRH) to 10 male heroin addicts and 5 controls and measured ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.314Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages317–320Twelve patients with abnormal involuntary movement disorders were treated with clozapine in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The cohort consisted of individuals with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, Huntington's disease, and atypical persistent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.317Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages320–323The differentiation of ictal and nonictal seizure disorders is difficult, particularly in patients suffering from partial seizures with complex symptomatology. The authors state that observation of a patient's habitual seizure during EEG recording is the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.320Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages323–326Differences between schizophrenic patients with Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (FRS) and those without FRS at the time of hospitalization indicated FRS were associated with behavior consistent with feelings of passivity and helplessness. The two groups ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.323Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages327–329The authors studied the effects of patient access to medical records during hospitalization in a psychiatric unit of a community general hospital. Questionnaires were completed by about 20 staff and 88 patients, and records were compared with those from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.327Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages330–332The patient who volunteers to be a subject for Part II of the certifying examination in psychiatry and neurology is an indispensable but surprisingly invisible participant in a highly controversial process. A survey of the attitudes of 78 patients toward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.330Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages333–335The threatening paranoid patient is one of the most frightening and difficult patients to treat. The author points out the need for all levels of hospital staff to become more adept at recognizing their own feelings, which often keep them from ...
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Publication date: 01 March 1979
Page359In the January 1979 issue there was an error in "Panic Attacks: Diagnostic Evaluations of 17 Patients" by Stephen F. Pariser, M.D., Bruce A. Jones, M.D., Emil R. Pinta, M.D., Elizabeth A. Young, M.D., and Mary E. Fontana, M.D. The sixth sentence of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.3.359Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages374–376The 132nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association will be held in Chicago, Ill., May 2-18, 1979; the theme of this meeting is "The Scientific and Humanistic Future of Psychiatry. "The information here is what was available as of mid-January ...
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