American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 2
- February 1980
Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages151–164DSM-III will be published early this year. In the first part of this article the authors describe some of the major achievements of DSM-III: the process of its development, reaching consensus on many controversial diagnostic categories and a definition of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.151Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages165–173The authors compared 18 patients diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder with 102 patients with orther diagnoses in a psychiatric emergency service. They found that 81 of 129 items obtained from the literature on borderline personality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.165Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages174–180The authors report cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of five monoamine metabolites before and after probenecid administration in normal subjects and patients with depression and schizophrenia. No differences were found in baseline metabolite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.174Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages181–186The author reports a prospective study of the mental health and alcohol use of 184 men first studied during their college years. When the men were 50 years old a rater blind to all other data classified the subjects' alcohol use as little (N = 48), social ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.181Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages187–190The authors measured serum neuroleptic levels by radioreceptor assay in 30 schizophrenic patients receiving haloperidol, fluphenazine, chlorpromazine, molindone, thiothixene, or trifluoperazine. Neuroleptic levels were significantly correlated with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.187Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages191–197To test the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia the authors measured specific 3H-neuroleptic/dopamine binding sites in three dopamin-rich regions of 59 postmortem normal human brains and 50 postmortem brains from schizophrenic patients using 3H-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.191Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages198–202Clinical psychiatry has focused almost entirely on the psychopathology of the affective disorders. The authors studied responses of 61 patients (35 bipolar. 26 unipolar) to questions about perceived short- and long-term benefits (increased sensitivity, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.198Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages203–206The authors examined 100 psychiatric patients who were 60 years old and older for orthostatic hypotension and symptoms of dizziness and falling. Almost 40% of the patients complained of dizziness and falling, although only 27% had systolic orthostatic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.203Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages207–210The differential use of medical services by patients with and those without a diagnosis of mental disorder was examined in four adult populations by age, sex, diagnosis, and medical department used. The four settings offered comprehensive services to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.207Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages211–214The authors found that plasma luteinizing hormone (LH), prolactin, and testosterone were initially normal in nine acutely psychotic males with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder; follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) was normal in eight of the nine. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.211Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages215–217In a group of 55 consecutively admitted patients who exclusively abused sedatives or hypnotics, neuropsychological performance was significantly lower and signs of intellectual impairment significantly more often diagnosed than in a matched control group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.215Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages217–220Toward the end of the 19th century, Janet suggested that the fundamental disorder in hysteria was one of attention. The authors examined this idea in a study of habituation. Patients with a history of prolonged conversion symptons (N = 11) showed a severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.217Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages221–223Fourteen male rape victims treated in a county hospital emergency room over a 30-month period are compared with 100 randomly selected female victims treated over the same period. The male victims as a group sustained more physical trauma, were more likely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.221Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages224–227In a prospective study of drug overdose patients admitted to emergency rooms of 21 Toronto hospitals, 39% said they had taken a benzodiazepine. Benzodiazepines were used more frequently by females than males and by suburban than core hospital patients. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.224Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages228–229The authors evaluated the impact of short-term intensive instruction by mental health professionals on police officers' attitudes toward the mentally ill and on their ability to distinguish between mental illness and other behavior. Compared with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.2.228Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages230–233The authors investigated the marked decline in the number of patients transferred from an inpatient service of a general hospital to a state hospital during a 30-month period. The major reasons for transfer were unmanageable behavior, high risk of suicide ...
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Page263In "Use of MAO Inhibitors in Elderly Patients" by J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., and Charles V. Ford, M.D., in the November 1979 issue, the first sentence of the Discussion section should read, "MAO is generally thought to act. . . ."
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