American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 138
- Number 8
- August 1981
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Publication date: 01 August 1981
Page1027The authors present a basic overview of recent research on the outcome of psychotherapy, considering different types of therapy and different diagnostic categories separately. In some studies psychotherapy was more efficacious than spontaneous remission ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1027Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1036–1044The authors review some pertinent features of the battered wife syndrome, including definitions, incidence, characteristics of wives, injury profiles, setting of the violence, psychodynamics, role of alcohol, family backgrounds, characteristics of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1036Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1045–1050The authors measured CSF norepinephrine concentrations in drug-free schizophrenic patients with and without probenecid administration and in drug-free normal control subjects. Schizophrenic patients had significantly higher baseline norepinephrine values. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1045Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1051–1056The authors investigated information processing in schizophrenia by studying 30 paranoid schizophrenic patients and 30 depressed inpatients. The basic methodology relied on tachistoscopic presentation of stimuli. First, the critical stimulus duration ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1051Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1057–1062To determine the significance of social factors in racial intolerance, the authors studied the relationship between relational behavior and ethnicity, group status and role, peer acceptance, and group cohesion in an adolescent correctional institution. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1057Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1063–1068Studies of the adopted-away children of schizophrenic parents that have claimed to have shown a strong genetic factor in the etiology of schizophrenia have had a great impact on psychiatry, including effects on the direction and support of research. An ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1063Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1069–1074Thirteen experienced supervising psychiatrists independently rated the psychotherapy interviews of six residents, using a detailed assessment instrument. Although interrater agreement was significantly greater than would be expected by chance, the extent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1069Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1075–1077The recent U.S. District Court decision in A.E. and R.R. v. Mitchell held that psychiatric patients who are civilly committed under the Utah statute have no constitutional right to refuse treatment for the mental illness that led to their commitment. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1075Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1078–1081Conflicting reports concerning cholinomimetic-induced reduction of schizophrenic symptoms prompted the authors to study such changes in schizophrenic symptoms following physostigmine infusions in subgroups of patients with schizophrenic-like illness. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1078Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1082–1085The authors present the first report, to their knowledge, of hyperserotonemia in children with attentional deficit disorder who had normal intelligence. Hyperserotonemic children had significantly lower levels of plasma total and protein-bound tryptophan ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1082Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1086–1089The authors found that a self-imposed change in physical appearance during the acute phase before hospital admission and a previous act of self-mutilation differentiated self-mutilators from control subjects in a group of patients with schizophrenia. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1086Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1089–1091The author reviewed records of 10 patients who had experienced acute loxapine overdose. The most frequent medical complications were CNS depression, sinus tachycardia, hypertension, and hypothermia; 6 patients had had generalized major motor seizures, 1 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1089Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1092–1095The authors gave 22 chemical workers neurological, psychiatric, and neuropsychological examinations and placed them in one of two groups according to their degree of exposure to trimethyltin chloride spillage during January 1978. Other chemicals to which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1092Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1095–1097The author describes several patients undergoing in vivo exposure therapy for simple phobias who reported transient sensory distortions without other evidence of psychosis. The experiences occurred mainly in the tactile, kinesthetic, and visual modes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1095CSF GABA in normal subjects and patients with depression, schizophrenia, mania, and anorexia nervosa
Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1098–1101The authors examined the CSF GABA of 87 subjects: 29 normal control subjects, 11 patients with schizophrenia, 26 with depression, 6 with mania, and 15 with anorexia nervosa. Depressed patients had significantly lower CSF GABA levels than did normal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1098Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1102–1106Because of the inefficacy of disparate psychiatric and rehabilitative approaches to psychosocial restoration of chronic mental patients, the authors designed the New England Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Program for vocational rehabilitation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1102Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1106–1109In a preliminary analysis by the NIMH-Clinical Research Branch Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression the lifetime rate of affective illness among 1,090 interviewed relatives of depressed and manic probands was considerably lower in Iowa ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1106Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1110–1112The authors report another complication of freebase cocaine smoking. They found a significant reduction in the carbon monoxide diffusing capacity in the lungs of two patients. This suggests that inhalation of the freebase of cocaine may damage the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1110Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1112–1113The author describes the case of a patient who received neuroleptics and antiparkinsonian medications for more than 7 years and whose tardive dyskinesia symptoms disappeared after trihexyphenidyl was discontinued. The case appears to support the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1112Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1114–1115Over an 8-month period 84 male patients with schizophrenia were tested for handedness. The authors' data suggest that there is an increased frequency of left-handedness, as well as mixed-handedness, among schizophrenic patients.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1114Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1115–1116The authors describe a patient with the neuroleptic malignant syndrome whose excessive catecholamine excretion indicates hyperactivity of the sympathoadrenomedullary component of the autonomic nervous system. Their finding provides a physiological basis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1115Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1116–1117The author describes the case of a 14-year-old boy who developed Gilles de la Tourette's disorder during pemoline therapy. Unlike other reported cases, the boy's tics did not remit after the pemoline was discontinued.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1116Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1118–1119The authors describe the misdiagnosis of an elderly patient with depressive dementia and suggest that lithium may be an effective treatment for some individuals with this disorder, particularly those with apparent bipolar illness.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1118Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages1120–1121The authors studied 243 inpatients with unipolar depression who had received DSTs. Of 205 patients with primary depression, the 4 who later committed suicide were among 96 with abnormal DST results; 1 patients with secondary depression committed suicide ...
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Page1132In the May 1981 issue, in the table of contents and on page 662 of "Dialysis for Schizophrenia: An Uncontrolled Study of 11 Patients," by Stephen C. Scheiber, M.D., Irvin Cohen, M.D., Henry Yamamuna, Ph.D., Raymond Novak, M.D., and Larry Beutler, Ph.D., ...
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