American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 140
- Number 6
- June 1983
Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages689–694Of 316 patients with a major depressive disorder who were followed for between 6 months and 2 years, 80 (25%) had a preexisting chronic minor depression of at least 2 years' duration. The chronic minor depression reduced the apparent effect of the known ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.689Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages695–699The influence of the clinically depressed state on personality assessment was evaluated by comparing self-report personality inventories of patients while clinically depressed and at follow-up 1 year later. The authors examined two groups from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.695Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages700–703The thyrotropin (TSH) response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was assessed in 35 consecutive male admissions. Patients with TSH blunting were identified; they were compared with patients without blunting and with normal subjects. Patients without ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.700Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages704–707There has been national concern regarding the decreasing number of U.S. medical students entering psychiatric residency training programs in the 1970s at the same time that the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) report ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.704Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages708–711This study of 65 children and adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric problems revealed a history of incest in 37.5% of the nonpsychotic female subjects. Ten percent of the psychotic girls and about 8% of all the boys had such a history. A comparison of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.708Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages711–714This study of alcoholic patients with and without secondary depression showed that the two groups were almost identical in demographic characteristics, early-life antisocial problems, quantity and frequency of drinking, and family history of affective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.711Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages720–727Previous studies by the author and his collaborators, Rosenthal, Wender, Schulsinger, and Jacobsen, of the biological and adoptive relatives of schizophrenic adoptees are reviewed in conjunction with more recent studies by Spitzer and Endicott and by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.720Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages728–733Thirty patients with Huntington's disease, a genetically transmitted neuropsychiatric disorder that can be diagnosed reliably, were evaluated systematically for psychopathology, followed for extended periods, and treated with psychopharmacological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.728Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages734–739A 6-item Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test has been validated as a measure of cognitive impairment. This test predicted the scores on a validated 26-item mental status questionnaire of two patient groups in a skilled nursing home, patients in a health-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.734Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages740–745Biopsychosocial eclecticism is incomplete because it does not address the important issues of differential causation and treatment staging. Psychiatric serialism goes beyond eclecticism to consider biological, psychosocial, and existential-moral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.740Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages747–749Of 100 consecutive patients treated in a program for management of chronic pain, 25 were definitely depressed, 39 were probably depressed, and 36 were not depressed. Comparisons between the definitely depressed and nondepressed groups showed them to have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.747Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages750–753The authors studied the relationship of plasma cortisol secretion and REM period latency in 25 patients with endogenous depression. The 8 patients (32%) with cortisol hypersecretion had a significantly shortened REM period latency in comparison with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.750Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages754–757The authors used a sensitive flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometric procedure to measure CSF copper concentrations in normal controls, former heroin addicts, and unmedicated and medicated chronic schizophrenic patients and found no significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.754Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages757–760The authors review theoretical and clinical data supporting the hypothesis that L-tryptophan may potentiate the effects of lithium carbonate and report on a double-blind clinical comparison of lithium plus L-tryptophan and lithium plus placebo in 9 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.757Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages760–763In response to a questionnaire regarding the frequency and type of psychiatric disorders among their patients, internists and surgeons in private practice estimated that 21.1% of their patients had psychiatric problems, that 14.6% would benefit from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.760Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages764–766The authors evaluated the usefulness of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test in detecting alcoholism (as defined by the Research Diagnostic Criteria) in opiate addicts. The test was found to be adequately sensitive and specific in detecting current ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.764Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages767–770Four women who were or had been members of the Unification church were studied by means of clinical interviews and psychological tests. The authors found that these women shared the following characteristics: 1) difficulties with heterosexual relations; 2)...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.767Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages771–774Two patients with phobias for medical procedures and trauma developed "vasovagal syncope" with hypotension and bradycardia while viewing a videotape of a venous cutdown. Eleven hours of exposure therapy per patient eliminated both the phobic and fainting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.771Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages774–777Despite the reported increase in the incidence of bulimia, little is known about the life adjustment of bulimic patients. The authors surveyed 80 women who met the DSM-III criteria for bulimia regarding their adjustment in the areas of work, social and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.774Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages781–783To determine what factors influence medical students' perception of the application and selection procedures of psychiatric residency programs, the authors sent a questionnaire to 100 medical students interviewed for the residency program at a major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.781Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages786–787This retrospective analysis of patients with major depressive disorder correlated response to the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) with clinical response to antidepressants. Nonsuppression on the DST predicted good response to noradrenergic drugs; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.786Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages788–789Multiple myeloma is an uncommon cancer, but of eight patients with multiple myeloma admitted to a general hospital over 5 months, five had psychiatric illness, and four of the five had delirium. Consulting psychiatrists should be aware of the common ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.788Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages792–794Of 50 outpatients with nonpsychotic, nonmelancholic, anxious depression, the 24 patients taking isocarboxazid had better scores on all outcome measures than the 26 patients taking placebo. Differences on several variables reached statistical significance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.792Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages794–796Several years after MAO activity determination, 36 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were contacted for assessment of their outcome. Patients who had had low platelet MAO activity had significantly better social adjustment and fewer ...
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Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages824-b–824The correct name of the second author of the article "Serum Levels of Anticholinergic Drugs and Impaired Recent Memory in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients" by Larry E. Tune, M.D., and associates, which appeared on pp. 1460-1462 of the November 1982 issue, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.824-bPublication date: 01 June 1983
Pages824-c–824The author of the letter to the Editor "Treatment of Flashbacks by Imipramine," which appeared on page 509 of the April 1983 issue, was Allan Burstein, M.D. The staff regrets this error.
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