American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 3
- March 1980
Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages279–291The two sides of the human brain are functionally and anatomically different. Research methods based on this cerebral laterality have been used to investigate regional brain function in psychiatric illness. The author describes the functional and anatomic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.279Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages292–296The authors review the guidelines of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for recertification and the approaches of various medical specialty boards, including internal medicine, pathology, and family practice, toward implementing periodic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.292Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages297–300Burgeoning interest in geriatric psychiatry has created a challenge of optimally fitting geriatric content into already crowded psychiatric residency curricula. The authors review general considerations in geriatric psychiatry training and describe a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.297Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages301–305The transition from residency to the active practice of psychiatry is a difficult, complex, and relatively unexplored one for both men and women. Women who have faced this transition have only recently begun to share experiences, problems, fantasies, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.301Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages306–309The ghetto resident's concern with immediate real and psychological survival leads to what Kluckhohn called a present-time cultural value orientation, in contrast to the middle-class time orientation, which values preparation for the future. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.306Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages310–314Hyperalimentation is a feeding technique in which all essential nutrients are infused intravenously to sustain patients who cannot eat. Although no panacea for anorexia nervosa, hyperalimentation can provide calories for intractable, malnourished ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.310Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages315–320Recent political and scientific developments have contributed to a growing recognition of the need to move mental health into the mainstream of general health service delivery. It is important to systematically approach the development of a range of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.315Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages321–326The author presents data on the use of the insanity defense to provide a basis for current debates on its revision. Generally, the experience in New York State in 1976--1978 reflects an increasing number of insanity acquittals over 1965--1976, but the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.321Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages329–331The author summarizes the historical bases for overzealous intervention by physicians, noting the tensions among medical technology, nature as a healing force, and the physician's warrant to treat. He discusses John Mill's On Liberty and Gerald Dworkin's "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.329Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages332–339The assertion of a patient's right to refuse medication places a psychiatrist in a double bind because he or she knows that medication will often greatly relieve mental disturbance. Delaying medication until the patient is formally judged incompetent and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.332Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages340–346The authors studied patients' refusal of medication during a three- month period on an inpatient service of a community mental health center. Although refusal of medication was common, most episodes were self-limited. Only 5 of 72 episodes seriously ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.340Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages347–352The use of legal guardianship appears to offer a ready resolution to the complex forensic issue of involuntary medication for psychiatric inpatients. The authors, with the aid of clinical examples, show that the gap between theory and practice may render ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.347Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages353–358The author reviews the sociocultural anthropology of medication refusal in relation to "compliance" and examines the social and cultural meaning of medication outside and within treatment. She suggests that these aspects of the medication experience ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.353Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages359–361In a morphometric study of the anterior cerebellar vermis of 47 brains in the Yakovlev collection, the area of the vermis of 5 of 12 brains of schizophrenic patients was smaller than that of any of 11 brains of control subjects without psychiatric or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.359Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages362–364The authors measured gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels in the lumbar CSF of patients with depression, with psychosis, or undergoing evaluation for a neurologic disorder. GABA levels in the CSF from depressed patients were significantly decreased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.362Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages365–367Recertification raises a number of issues for the subspecialty of child psychiatry. The author discusses double jeopardy (i.e., examination in both the main and subspecialty areas), the use of multiple methodologies for achieving certification, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.365Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages367–369The civil commitment statutes of Oregon were changed in 1973 and 1975 to include nonphysician court examiners and public prosecutors in the commitment hearing. To evaluate the effect of these changes the authors compared the commitment decisions actually ...
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Pages385-a–385In "The Pediatric-Psychiatric Model for Emergencies in Child Psychiatry: A Study of 994 Cases," by Mohammad Shafii, M.D., and associates, on page 1601 of the December 1979 issue, the first entry in the second column of table 1, girls 1-6 years old with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.385-aPublication date: 01 March 1980
Pages385-b–385In the January 1980 issue, in "Platelet MAO Vmax and Km in Chronic Schizophrenic Subjects," by Earl L. Giller, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., and associates, on page 98, the second sentence of the Discussion section should read, ". . . Berrettini and coworkers . . . ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.3.385-bPublication date: 01 March 1980
Pages401–403The 133rd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association will be held in San Francisco, Calif., May 3-9, 1980; the theme of this meeting is "To Love and to Work: Human Values in Psychiatry." The information here is what was available as of mid-...
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