American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 140
- Number 11
- November 1983
Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1413–1425The author reviews the results of twin studies of schizophrenia from the perspective of recent advances in our understanding of the twin method and of the transmission of schizophrenia. The evidence suggests that twin studies of schizophrenia are not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1413Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1426–1436Transient cognitive disorders (delirium and pseudodelirium) are highly prevalent among the elderly, especially those with brain damage. Delirium is a common feature of physical illness or drug intoxication in elderly patients and requires prompt medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1426Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1437–1442The types and expectancy of mental disorders in the siblings of 74 probands with chronic schizophrenia were examined. The siblings were classified according to whether 1) both parents had schizotypal personality disorder, 2) one parent had the disorder ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1437Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1443–1449The authors examined the relationship between 100 Viet Nam veterans' self-reported and objectively determined exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange and the relationship between self- or objective ratings and self-reported psychological and medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1443Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1450–1454Psychopathological reactions to solitary confinement were extensively described by nineteenth-century German clinicians. In the United States there have been several legal challenges to the use of solitary confinement, based on allegations that it may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1450Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1455–1459The author draws on personal experience and a review of the literature to summarize the current state of psychiatric practice and education in Saudi Arabia and its relationship to other medical specialties. Although psychiatry is not accorded the status ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1455Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1460–1464Few studies of deinstitutionalized patients in the community have focused on the quality of the patients' lives. The authors interviewed 31 patients discharged from a state hospital to community residences and 10 patients who remained in the hospital. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1460Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1465–1469The author investigated factors associated with continued involvement 3 years after divorce of fathers who did not have custody of their children. Feeling competent in the role of father, degree of involvement in child rearing 1 year after divorce, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1465Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1470–1473In 1975 the World Health Organization began a multinational collaborative study of the feasibility and effectiveness of offering community-based mental health care in developing countries. Services were to be offered by primary health care workers in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1470Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1474–1480Teams in seven developing countries under sponsorship of the World Health Organization have been carrying out collaborative operational research on providing mental health care through primary health care services. New techniques of identifying mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1474Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1481–1485Teams in seven developing countries have adopted a common research design to evaluate new community mental health care services. The nature of the intervention programs varied considerably according to the characteristics of each area. Observations made ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1481Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1486–1490Part of the WHO collaborative study is the training of general health workers to provide mental health services. The authors describe the training program used in Raipur Rani, chandigarh, India, to train medical ancillaries (called peripheral health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1486Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1495–1498Using DSM-III, the authors reviewed the psychiatric diagnoses of 43 patients evaluated over a 1-year period by a university medical center pain board and found that 98% of the patients had an axis I disorder and 37% had an axis II disorder. The findings ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1495Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1498–1500Thirty multiple sclerosis patients were assessed: 15 with predominantly cerebral involvement of their demyelinating disease and 15 with predominantly spinal cord and cerebellar involvement. The groups were matched with regard to age, duration of illness, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1498Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1501–1504The authors studied 49 alcoholic in patients in remission, 18 first- degree relatives of 10 of these alcoholics, and 25 normal control subjects. Alcoholic patients had significantly lower platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity than control subjects. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1501Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1504–1506The authors compared the regions of motor involvement in levodopa- induced dyskinesia and neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia. Significantly more patients with tardive dyskinesia than parkinsonian patients with levodopa-induced dyskinesia had lip and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1504Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1507–1510Forty-nine probands, diagnosed according to objective diagnostic criteria as having good- or poor-prognosis schizophrenia, were interviewed 6 years after being diagnosed to assess outcome measured by the Strauss-Carpenter outcome scale, global ratings ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1507Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1511–1512Fourteen depressed patients were given the dexamethasone and ACTH suppression tests. The results of 71% agreed, suggesting that in a subgroup of depressed patients dexamethasone resistance reflects a central rather than peripheral dysfunction of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1511Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1513–1514The authors describe the clinical symptoms of a disulfiram overdose in a male patient and present the plasma concentrations of disulfiram and its metabolites 4 and 7 days after the overdose.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1513Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1515–1516The authors describe a case of oral-facial dyskinesia that occurred after discontinuation of amoxapine, and antidepressant which may also have neuroleptic effects. Occurrence of withdrawal dyskinesia indicates that the neuroleptic effects of amoxapine may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1515Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1517–1518A patient receiving a standard dose of imipramine developed a drug- induced delirium. Her plasma antidepressant level was in the low therapeutic range. Thus, tricyclic-induced delirium may in some cases be an idiosyncratic phenomenon unrelated to plasma ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1517Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1519–1520Rabbit syndrome is an uncommon, tongue-sparing, orofacial movement disturbance, rapid and regular in nature and associated with prolonged use of neuroleptics. Two cases reports illustrate how anticholinergic agents successfully treat the disorder. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1519Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1521–1523Dexamethasone suppression tests were given to 69 consecutively admitted psychiatric patients. Nonsuppression rates for depression with or without melancholia and for schizophrenia were similar to those previously reported, but for mania and other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1521Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1523–1524The authors rated 71 bipolar I patients on the basis of the number of different psychotic symptoms experienced during the course of their illness. Patients who became ill at a young age had significantly higher scores than patients with a later onset.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1523Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1525–1526Two heavy abusers of cocaine experienced dysphoric hypersomnolent withdrawal following abrupt cessation of use. Desipramine quickly reversed the withdrawal symptoms in both patients, although it did not prevent their future use of cocaine.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.11.1525Publication date: 01 November 1983
Pages1527–1529Normal men exhibited more characteristics of borderline personality disorder than did normal women on a questionnaire. In light of that finding, the authors suggest that labeling processes may be a contributing factor in the overrepresentation of women ...
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Pages1542-a–1542In the article "Validation of a Short Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test of Cognitive Impairment" by Robert Katzman, M.D, and associates (June 1983 issue, pp. 734-739), the last part of the footnote to the appendix on page 739 should read, "Maximum ...
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