American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 9
- September 1980
Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1023–1031Model programs for chronic mental patients may be viewed from four perspectives: evaluation of individual programs, commonalities in successful programs, generalizability and reproducibility of specific programs, and relevance of model programs to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1023Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1032–1041ECT has been replaced by neuroleptics for the treatment of schizophrenia. The production of serious drug-related side effects, particularly tardive dyskinesia, raises the question of the efficacy and toxicity of ECT versus neuroleptics. Most of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1032Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1042–1046The authors studied the effects of lithium carbonate on memory and cognitive function in 16 psychiatric patients, who received lithium for 2 weeks and placebo for 2 weeks in a double-blind cross-over design. At the end of each treatment phase, subjects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1042Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1047–1049The author interviewed 16 couples after the husband had been diagnosed as infertile. Eleven husbands experienced a period of impotency. Fourteen of the women experienced anger toward the husband, psychiatric symptoms, and/or dreams about their concern for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1047Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1050–1054The author reviews the DSM-III section on personality disorders, discusses several of its more controversial diagnoses, and suggests some possible alternatives. He attributes the continued low reliability of personality diagnoses, compared with the other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1050Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1055–1060The authors report on 21 cases of self-induced water intoxication and cite 25 others in the literature. Three of their patients demonstrated at least temporary inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, 3 were receiving a diuretic, and the other 15 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1055Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1061–1064The authors compared the records of 59 psychiatric patients involutarily committed to a Veterans Administration hospital on an emergency basis with those of a control group of 59 psychiatric patients with respect to the number of assaults noted during the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1061Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1065–1070The Mental and Nervous Disorder Utilization and Cost Survey in Washington, D.C., has yielded useful information about outpatient utilization within an insurance plan with broad mental health coverage, as well as evidence that a comprehensive benefit with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1065Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1071–1074The economics of institutional delivery of mental health care sometimes makes it impossible for psychiatrists to meet the demands of medical ethics. At times the psychiatrist's signature is used to imply a degree of medical responsibility that is not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1071Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1081–1084The authors gave the CES-D, a self-report depression symptom scale, to 515 people drawn from a longitudinal community survey. The subjects were also interviewed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS). From the information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1081Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1084–1087In a study of 40 consecutively hospitalized patients with research diagnoses of endogenous depression, the authors found no difference between unipolar and bipolar depressive patients in the risk for affective disorder in first-degree relatives, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1084Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1088–1089The authors gave 48 newly admitted schizophrenic patients an initial test dose (2.2 mg/kg) of chlorpromazine hydrochloride and additional doses at 24 and 36 hours. Clinical response was measured at 48 hours and at the end of subsequent treatment with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1088Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1090–1092To explore the hypothesis that depressed patients with low pretreatment levels of urinary 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) respond more favorably to antidepressant drugs which act on noradrenergic neuronal systems than do patients with high MHPG ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1090Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1093–1095The authors prospectively monitored 60 consecutive admissions to an inpatient psychiatry service to determine the role of drugs in psychiatric hospitalization. They categorized drug-related problems as 1) drug intoxication, 2) drug abuse, 3) side effects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1093Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1095–1098While undertaking a larger study dealing with representations of disease in pre-Columbian ceramic figures, the authors found four figures in which depression was clearly depicted. Their findings prove that psychiatric disorders did not go unnoticed by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1095Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1098–1100Persons found incompetent to stand trial comprise the largest group of psychiatric patients committed to mental hospitals through the criminal justice system in the United States. The law dictates that these patients receive short-term treatment aimed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1098Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1101–1103The authors took an empirical approach to determining ingredients of a successful psychiatry clerkship. They collected measures of clinical, didactic, and interpersonal experiences throughout the clerkship and correlated these with a range of outcomes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1101Publication date: 01 September 1980
Pages1104–1106The authors surveyed psychiatry residents in academic training programs to determine the amount of time they spent in teaching activities and to assess their attitudes toward teaching. They found that most residents spent from 1 to 2 hours per day ...
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Page1132On page 849 of "Haloperidol Excretion in Human Milk" by Ronald B. Stewart, M.S., Barry Karas, and Philip K. Springer, M.D., in the July 1980 issue, the fourth sentence of the last paragraph should read, ". . . an infant could receive a maximum of 0.0075 ...
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