American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 139
- Number 8
- August 1982
Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages977–984Research has shown that social networks can act as social support systems to promote mental health and buffer psychological stress. In this selective review the authors illuminate patterns and characteristics of social networks that maintain health and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.977Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages985–990Psychiatrists and others in the mental health field have long been aware that forces within the surrounding social network effect both favorably and unfavorably the individual psyche and the course of mental illness, but the systematic use of such factors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.985Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages991–997In this placebo-paired, double-blind study, 13 of 45 schizophrenic patients showed an acute improvement in schizophrenic symptoms following d-amphetamine infusion (20 mg). The 18 patients who worsened tended to have higher CSF 3-methoxy-4-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.991Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages998–1002The authors interviewed 162 widows 1, 6, 12, and 24 months after bereavement to determine which sociodemographic, prebereavement, and response variables and circumstances of the husband's death were related to distress level, as measured by the General ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.998Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1003–1009The authors reviewed studies of attitudes toward psychiatry held by 368 medical students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and 204 senior medical students from two schools in Washington, D.C. They found that the attitudes of all these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1003Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1010–1014Five months after a severe winter storm, a survey of children whose behavior had been assessed by means of a parent rating scale during a Head Start program 6 months before the disaster showed that some problem-behavior scores had increased significantly. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1010Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1015–1021The authors discuss how consultation/liaison psychiatry has promoted closer cooperation between primary care and psychiatry in the general hospital setting and has increased physician concern for psychosocial issues while at the same time creating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1015Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1022–1027Using patient samples in London hospitals, the authors compared three methods of diagnosing and subdividing depressive illness in terms of their ability to predict outcome. The Catego class D+ selected patients who continued to suffer from episodes of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1022Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1028–1032The psychopathological interpretation of the European witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, which has been prominent in histories of psychiatry, contends that demonology overwhelmed psychiatry in the late middle Ages, with the result that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1028Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1036–1039Part of psychiatry's recruitment problem stems from large-scale defections among students who were planning careers in psychiatry when they entered medical school. The authors present data indicating that University of Maryland freshmen who preferred ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1036Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1040–1042Using questionnaires sent to training directors, the author examined the relationships between 35 medical school variables and selection of psychiatry by students. The results indicate that there are complex but significant relationships between medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1040Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1043–1046Reports that imipramine and phenelzine prevent panic attacks in agoraphobia suggest the possibility that agoraphobia and/or panic disorder might be a clinical manifestation of underlying depression. To test this hypothesis, dexamethasone suppression tests ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1043Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1046–1048The authors compared the MMPI profile of 26 patients with DSM-III borderline personality disorder with than of 19 patients with dysthymic disorder. The clinical scales on which the borderline patients scored highest were psychasthenia and schizophrenia, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1046Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1049–1051To study the fear of driving phenomenon the authors contacted 48 subjects who, in response to a newspaper article, had expressed an intense fear of driving in the city of Houston and compared them with an age- and sex-matched control group. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1049Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1054–1056The authors conducted a fixed-dose study of haloperidol blood levels and clinical response in schizophrenic in patients and found that those with steady-state RBC haloperidol levels in the range of 2.4--5.4 ng/ml showed greater improvement than those with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1054Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1057–1058The authors conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitor zimelidine in the treatment of major depressive illness. Zimelidine had the same antidepressant efficacy as amitriptyline but significantly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1057Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1059–1060Many children with attention deficit disorder also meet DSM-III criteria for separation anxiety disorder, the symptoms of which cluster in four of the nine criteria. In a study of 14 boys with both diagnoses, the attention deficit disorder of every boy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1059Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1060–1062The authors present the cases of two patients with panic disorder and major depression whose panic responded to imipramine but whose depression did not.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1060Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1062–1064Of 100 adolescents who showed evidence of a depressive disorder and were given the dexamethasone suppression test (DST), 42% had abnormal results. Several had mixed or contradictory symptoms and the DST helped in diagnosis of an affective disorder and in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1062Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1065–1066The authors used dantrolene as a prophylactic during ECT with a depressed patient susceptible to malignant hyperthermia. Succinylcholine and tricyclic and MAO-inhibiting antidepressants can precipitate malignant hyperthermia and were thus avoided.
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Page1084On page 547 of the article "Hysteria and Women" by Paul Chodoff, M.D., in the May 1982 issue, in the first column. 22 lines from the bottom, the sentence should read. "However, there is no doubt that behavior we would now regard as hysterical was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1084Publication date: 01 August 1982
Pages1084-a–1084The authors of the letter to the Editor "Communication with Pediatric Cancer Patients." which appeared on pp. 844-845 of the June 1982 issue. were Betty Pfefferbaum. M.D., and Phyllis Levenson, Dr.P.H., Houston. The staff regrets these errors.
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