American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 140
- Number 1
- January 1983
Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages1–10For over a quarter century, until it disbursed its remaining funds in 1981, the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry (FFRP) aided hundreds of researchers in fields related to mental health. The fund was established by a private donor, the late ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages11–20The author develops a nosologic framework for understanding the psychopathology of low-grade chronic depressions: 1) late-onset primary depressions with residual chronicity, 2) chronic secondary dysphorias, having a variable onset age and considered part ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.11Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages21–25The authors assayed CSF 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) concentrations in 24 chronic schizophrenic patients, 9 of whom had enlarged cerebral ventricles according to computerized tomography scans, and in 15 control subjects with neurological disorders. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.21Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages26–30The authors found that platelet serotonin concentrations were significantly elevated in patients with chronic schizophrenia and in patients with bipolar major depressive disorder. High-affinity serotonin uptake was significantly reduced only in patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.26Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages31–35The authors evaluated the presence of assaultive behavior in 103 children, aged 6-12 years, seen in the psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services of a municipal hospital. No racial or ethnic differences were found. Boys were significantly more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.31Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages36–40This study analyzes data pertaining to 12 rapes and rape-murders committed by one male adolescent offender over a 4-year period. All offenses except the first were committed while the offender was under psychiatric and probationary supervision. The use or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.36Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages41–46The authors gave the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES- D) Scale, a self-report depression symptom scale, to 528 subjects drawn from a larger longitudinal community survey. Interviewers also assessed respondents using the Schedule for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages47–51The authors assessed patients newly admitted to two North American health centers and one South American (Colombian) center according to a standardized protocol, with a structured interview, a symptom checklist, and a depression scale. The patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.47Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages52–55The authors mailed 1,227 questionnaires to U.S. psychiatrists at the time of the introduction of DSM-III to ascertain their diagnostic approach to schizophrenia; 25% (N = 301) of the questionnaires were returned. Only 4 symptom categories reached a 50% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages56–61The authors review the goals, methods, sample, and selected epidemiologic findings from a collaborative study of affective disorders among the Amish. This culturally and genetically homogeneous population (N = 12,500) constitutes an excellent research ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.56Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages62–66Reliability of diagnosis is central to genetic research on mental illness. In the Amish Study of affective disorders, consensus diagnoses were derived by a psychiatric board using the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC). To verify the reliability of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages67–71In the Amish Study of affective disorders, 79% of the 28 active bipolar I patients, diagnosed according to Research DIagnostic Criteria, previously had received hospital record diagnoses of schizophrenia. Both cultural and clinical factors hindered ...
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Pages82–85The authors report the results of a large-scale double-blind study comparing the anxiolytic effects of alprazolam, a triazolobenzodiazepine; diazepam, a 1,4-benzodiazepine; and placebo in 151 anxious outpatients. Alprazolam and diazepam produced similar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.82Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages85–87The authors note the recent controversy about whether the sex of the psychotherapist is an important factor in the treatment of patients with certain neurotic and personality disturbances and suggest that much of the confusion is because supportive and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.85Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages88–91In this study mean 4 p.m. cortisol levels were significantly higher in patients with major depression than in control subjects or in patients with bipolar depression or dysthymic-related disorders. Moreover, the distribution of values differed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.88Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages92–94The authors studied CSF cortisol in 30 depressed patients, 10 manic patients, 21 women with anorexia nervosa, and 22 normal control subjects. All patients were also rated on a global severity scale for mania or depression. Results indicated higher CSF ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.92Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages95–98The authors assessed the prevalence of attention deficit disorder, residual type, in a population of young adult male alcoholic patients in two residential alcohol treatment programs. They found the prevalence of the disorder in this sample to be 33% and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages99–101Seventy-three medically ill patients referred to a consultation/liaison service over a 4-month period were evaluated for alexithymia. Twenty- two (30%) of these patients had alexithymia. Age, race, and marital status were not associated with alexithymia ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.99Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages102–105The author examines some of the basic postulates and initial accomplishments of DSM-III from a Latin American vantage point. The phenomenological approach taken by DSM-III has enjoyed a long and prestigious tradition in Latin America. The author cites ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.102Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages105–107The author reports three cases of Hwa-Byung, a Korean folk illness ordinarily understood by patients and families to be a physical affliction despite the fact that its manifestations include both physiological and psychological symptoms. In addition, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.105Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages108–109Seven patients who had become aphasic as a result of acute vascular lesions reported a loss of dreaming. The authors conclude that the dreaming process is affected when the left hemisphere neural systems related to waking language are impaired.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.108Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages110–111Seventy-seven patients with small cell lung carcinoma were assigned randomly to two chemotherapy regimens to assess their psychological response to each regimen. One produced less depression and fatigue than the other, despite the absence of differences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.110Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages112–113From their studies of epileptic children, the authors found that barbiturate anticonvulsants have several unexpected psychologic and behavioral effects. They suggest that clinicians dealing with depression in epileptic patients consider the possibility ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.112Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages114–115The authors measured the platelet monoamine oxidase variables Vmax and Km in recovered alcoholics who had been abstinent for at least 5 years. No significant differences were found between these subjects and age- and sex-matched controls.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.114Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages117–118The author presents demographic and motivational data on 125 women who applied to be surrogate mothers. Several complementary motivations were noted: the desires for money, to be pregnant, to "give" a baby, and to resolve internal psychological conflicts.
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Pages140-c–140On page 1368 of the October 1982 issue, in a review by James M.A. Weiss of Current Psychiatric Therapies, Vol. 20, edited by Jules H. Masserman, the name of one of the authors of a chapter on the newer antidepressants was misspelled. The correct name is ...
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