American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 4A
- April 1979
ARTICLES
Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages377–385The authors review studies of platelet and white cell monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity in schizophrenic patients. The data on acute schizophrenic patients remain inconclusive. Review of 26 reports of chronic schizophrenic patients leaves little doubt, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.377Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages386–391The authors define the delirium seen after cataract surgery on the basis of Dupuytren’s original description and review studies using the criteria they set up on this basis. They then present prospective data on 2 patients with postcataractectomy delirium ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.386Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages392–395The authors describe an adult mental health service within a health maintenance organization and present information on the department’s setting, staffing patterns, programs, and philosophy. They believe that the emphasis on brief focal psychotherapy, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.392Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages396–400The authors report the development of a short-term behavioral therapy program for chronically hospitalized schizophrenic patients who had responded only minimally in a therapeutic community. The basic program was a token economy, which concentrated on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.396Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages401–405Normal subjects were admitted to a psychiatric unit devoted to the study and treatment of affective illness. Initially the authors were concerned about the difficulties volunteers might have living with psychiatric patients. However, the volunteers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.401Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages406–409The authors describe the dichotomy in the concept of community mental health centers. One view regards the community mental health center as a service provider for underserved populations, and another holds that it is an agent of social change. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.406Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages410–414The treatment of phobias by rapid in vivo exposure to the feared situation was accompanied by an increase in plasma growth hormone levels on at least one of two occasions in 8 of 11 subjects. The average growth hormone response was greater on the second ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.410Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages415–418The literature on anorexia nervosa largely ignores the acid-base and electrolyte disturbances that may accompany this condition. In an attempt to assess the magnitude of these disturbances in anorexia nervosa the authors reviewed the laboratory profiles ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.415Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages419–423The authors compared the medical histories of incarcerated and nonincarcerated delinquent children. Incarcerated delinquent children were significantly more likely than nonincarcerated delinquents to have sustained severe head and face injury. Differences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.419Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages424–426The author compared 14 child and adolescent borderline patients, diagnosed by the criteria of Gunderson and Singer (1), with a control population for history of separation from the mother or significant caretaker before age 10. The borderline patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.424Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages427–429The authors describe the establishment of a unit for children that emphasizes the integration of the pediatric model of acute, short-term inpatient care with the psychological and developmental perspective of the psychiatric model. Of the 145 children ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.427Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages430–433The author compares the adjustment of 18 adolescents on chronic hemodialysis to that of 63 adult patients on hemodialysis. The adolescents tended to comply less well with the medical regimen, their vocational rehabilitation was significantly lower, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.430Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages433–435In an attempt to find out what was being done for juvenile firesetters in their metropolitan community the authors reviewed the records of the local fire marshal, juvenile court, and psychiatric clinic. They found that the various agencies involved with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.433Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages436–439In order to evaluate the clinical usefulness of the Mini-Mental State (MMS) test, the authors had 63 patients complete the test after undergoing computerized tomographic (CT) scans of the brain. Patients with positive CT scans scored significantly lower ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.436Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages439–441The urinary excretion of N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) was higher in patients with severe liver disease than in normal subjects. This difference remained significant when patients with all grades of hepatic encephalopathy were excluded. Patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.439Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages442–444The authors collected data on 50 Vietnamese families living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by individual and group interview questionnaire. They also used interviews of all of the Vietnamese people who came to the local community mental health center and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.442Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages444–447The author discusses the evolution of psychiatric peer review in Washington, D.C. In its first six years (1972- 1977) the Washington Psychiatric Society Peer Review Committee evaluated 146 cases, 23 (16%) of which focused on group therapy. Eight of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.444Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages447–450The authors describe their experience with a routine Medicaid audit and discuss the damage such a procedure can do to the trust between psychiatrists and patients, confidentiality, doctors’ reputations, transference reactions, and patients’ own emotional ...
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