American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 7
- July 1980
Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages776–781Public health concern over tardive dyskinesia has been rising, but the magnitude of the problem has been undetermined. The incidence of tardive dyskinesia is unknown, and prevalence rates yield conflicting and possibly misleading estimates. The natural ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.776Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages782–790The authors evaluated carbamazepine (Tegretol), a drug of choice for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy, in a double-blind placebo- controlled trial in patients with manic-depressive illness. Seven of 9 manic patients had a partial to marked response; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.782Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages791–796The authors followed up 136 three-year-olds who had high or low scores for minor physical anomalies of face, head, hands, and feet at birth. Interviews with parents revealed that high-anomaly infants were somewhat more likely to have problem behaviors at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.791Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages797–800The best known of all psychotherapy patients. Anna O., entered treatment with Josef Breuer in December 1880. Modern psychotherapy begins with that encounter. Information gathered in the intervening years places us in a favorable position to review and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.797Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages801–805Although schizophrenia is a chronic illness with exacerbations and remissions, there has been surprisingly little systematic study of early signs of relapse. The authors gave 145 chronic schizophrenic patients and 80 family members a structured interview ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.801Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages806–810In an analysis of 22 cases of male rape in a community setting, the gender of the victim did not appear to be of primary importance to some of the rapists, but for others, males appeared to be specific intended targets, and the rapists' assaults were an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.806Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages811–816Diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry are heavily influenced by cultural factors. The author argues that the subject of culture warrants a place in the curriculum of psychiatric residency education. He outlines approaches to the teaching of cultural ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.811Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages819–821Patients who had therapeutic plasma levels of phenobarbital and/or diphenylhydantoin had significantly lower plasma levels of haloperidol and mesoridazine, the active metabolite of thioridazine, than patients who did not receive anticonvulsants. Plasma ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.819Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages822–825Each year as many as one of four medical students experience sufficient emotional pain to seek psychiatric consultation. In many cases the precipitating stress relates to specific stresses associated with the phase of training. In the third year increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.822Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages825–827The family histories of 140 children and adolescents with hyperactive child syndrome were compared with the family histories of 91 psychiatrically ill, age- and sex-matched patients who had a primary diagnosis other than hyperactive child syndrome. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.825Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages828–830In an attempt to determine the source of cognitive impairment in 106 consecutively admitted patients at the Johns Hopkins Chronic Pain Treatment Center, EEG, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Memory Quotient, and Bender Gestalt tests were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.828Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages831–833The authors examine the effect of economic forces on the income of psychiatrists and compare the economic position of psychiatry with that of the rest of medicine. Since 1970 the income of psychiatrists has been losing ground compared with that of other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.831Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages834–837Because there have been reports suggesting that patients who receive lithium are at risk for renal damage, the authors carried out extensive noninvasive testing of renal function in 43 patients who had been taking lithium for from 1 to 120 months. Their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.834Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages837–840The authors discuss how stress influences the candidate's capacity to effectively prepare for and fully demonstrate his or her abilities in the oral examination in psychiatry given by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. They highlight subtle ...
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Page871There was an error in "Toward a Rational Pharmacotherapy of Depression," by Stephen L. Stern, M.D., A. John Rush, M.D., and J. Mendels, M.D., in the May 1980 issue. The last full sentence on page 547 should read, "For example, Glassman and associates (47) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.7.871Publication date: 01 July 1980
Pages871-a–871On page 447 of the April 1980 issue, in "Unmasking Masked Depression in Children and Adolescents," by Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., and Dennis P. Cantwell, M.D., the data in table 3 are incorrect. The correct table appears below. [See table in the PDF file]
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