American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 1
- January 1980
Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages1–11The psychiatric emergency ward has become a primary entry point into the network of mental health services for people who need help to cope with their problems of living. It is also the only source of treatment for many chronically mentally ill patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages12–15The authors has developed a computerized system for diagnostic evaluation of a psychiatric problem on the Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS). He evaluates the chief complaint of hyperactivity by the three-step process: 1) defining the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.12Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages16–21Tardive dyskinesia is thought to result from neostriatal dopaminergic receptor supersensitivity induced by chronic treatment with neuroleptics. The authors suggest that dopaminergic supersensitivity also occurs in the mesolimbic region after chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.16Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages22–25The recent interest in childhood depression has exacerbated the confusion about nosology of this disorder. The authors have attempted to synthesize the latest thinking of several groups working in this area. They present a point-by-point comparison ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.22Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages26–31The Present State Examination (PSE) has gained increasing acceptance in psychiatric research. As with any clinical method, its usefulness rests not only on its reliability and pertinence but also on how successfully it can be taught. Its teachability is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.26Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages32–36Although the development of psychiatric residents has been studied extensively, continuing changes in psychiatrists after graduation from training have not. The authors present results of a survey research study of 263 psychiatrists recently graduated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.32Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages37–47The authors review the role of psychiatric and behavioral factors in the practice of medicine in three areas: 1) prevalence of psychiatric morbidity, 2) the role of behavioral or lifestyle factors in illness onset, and 3) the overlapping of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.37Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages48–51Blind raters applied research criteria to the charts of patients whose discharge diagnosis changed through several hospital admissions from depression to schizophrenia and to the charts of matched control patients. Fewer diagnostically unstable patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.48Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages52–55Co-citation analysis provides a methodology for investigating the structure of scientific specialties. The authors did such an analysis for psychiatry by using some 2 million references from the Social Sciences Citation Index to identify 155 clusters of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages56–60In 1979 Mesmer's Memoire sur la decouverte du magnestisme animal appeared in Paris. Although Mesmer believed in physical rather than psychological causes, his work in healing through suggestion marks the beginning of modern psychotherapy. In 1879 several ...
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Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages70–73Findings from two studies of the utilization of the mental health benefit under the Washington, D.C., area Blue Cross and Blue Shield Federal Employees Program suggest that diagnostic information submitted to insurance companies on claims forms is often ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.70Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages73–75MBD has long been considered a childhood disorders. Recent research suggests that in some it persists into adult life and that at least one form is a consequence of reduced activity of dopaminergic systems in the brain. To test this hypothesis, three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.73Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages76–79A natural experiment in psychiatric education took place nationally between 1970 and 1976, when one group of residents entered psychiatry with an internship, and the other without one. In this study 22 psychiatry residents with an internship and 25 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.76Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages80–82The authors monitored serum levels of fluphenazine in nine patients following injections of fluphenazine decanoate ranging from 10 to 75 mg. Levels were detected by a radioreceptor assay based on the ability of the drug to complete with 3H-spiroperidol ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.80Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages83–86Between 1970 and 1975 the number and rate of admissions to community mental health centers of people given a diagnosis of schizophrenia increased dramatically. However, the proportion of patients with schizophrenia admitted to community mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.83Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages87–90In this study 32 randomly selected psychiatric emergency room patients, who were in concurrent psychotherapy, completed the SCL-90 and a clinically oriented questionnaire. Their therapists independently rated the patients' degree of psychopathology on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.87Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages91–93The authors present a 9-year follow-up study of 76 chronically ill psychiatric patients treated in "coffee groups," a maintenance treatment approach first described in a pilot study in 1976. Their findings show a significant drop in rehospitalization ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.1.91Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages94–96Because psychological and psychiatric assessments of childhood cancer survivors have revealed a high rate of psychiatric sequelae, the authors investigated the relationship between the degree of physical unpairment resulting from cancer treatment and the ...
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Pages133-a–133In the December 1979 table of contents, the article beginning on page 1540, by Elissa P. Benedek and Richard S. Benedek, should be titled, "Joint Custody: Solution or Illusion?" The staff regrets this error.
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