American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 142
- Number 10
- October 1985
Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1137–1145Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare but serious adverse effect of antipsychotic medication. The author describes three new cases and reviews 50 others published in the past 5 years. Demographic and clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, outcome, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1137Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1146–1149For the diagnosis of somatization disorder, DSM-III requires the assessment of 37 specific symptoms, a time-consuming and cumbersome task. The authors describe a procedure by which the clinician can assess the presence of somatization disorder by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1146Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1150–1155DSM-III has established diagnostic criteria that separate somatization disorder from other overlapping symptom configurations. Nevertheless, information regarding the experience of somatization disorder is far from complete. Terms such as "masked ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1150Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1156–1160Thirty-seven patients with chronic pain admitted to a 3-week inpatient pain program were interviewed using the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule and the family history method. The most frequent psychiatric diagnoses were major depressive disorder (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1156Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1161–1167The authors document the childhood neuropsychiatric and family characteristics of nine male subjects who were clinically evaluated as adolescents and were later arrested for murder. Those subjects are compared with 24 incarcerated delinquents who did not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1161Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1168–1173Comparison of diagnoses of childhood depression from four sets of criteria (i.e., Research Diagnostic Criteria, DSM-III, and those of Poznanski and Weinberg) used with 65 children referred to a psychiatric clinic showed complete agreement in 56 (86%) of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1168Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1174–1178This study examines the different impact of work on the physical and psychological health of women and men: how men and women in business and managerial professions perceive the pressures of their work environments and what the consequences (e.g., ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1174Article
Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1181–1183Psychiatric residents training in a health maintenance organization (HMO) rapidly encounter the conflict between high demand for services and limited supply of time. In one HMO setting, the Harvard Community Health Plan, supervisors assist trainees in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1181Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1184–1186High titers of interferon were found in serum from 20 (24.4%) of 82 patients with psychosis and from only two (3.1%) of 64 control subjects. Interferon-positive patients were more likely than interferon- negative patients to have had a recent onset or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1184Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1187–1189The authors document 10 cases of children who met the criteria for a DSM-III axis I diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence by the age of 13. They present one case report to demonstrate the family history of affective disorder, especially bipolar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1187Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1190–1192The author examined the use of ECT in California from 1977 to 1983, a period during which its availability steadily declined. Approximately 1.12 persons per 10,000 population received ECT in 1977-1983, with little variation from year to year. Most ECT was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1190Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1193–1195Eleven of 32 newly diagnosed untreated patients with hyperthyroidism met DSM-III criteria for organic affective syndrome. Thirty of these patients submitted 24-hour urine specimens for measurement of urinary free cortisol levels, and 31 were given a 1-mg ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1193Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1196–1199The hematological effects of carbamazepine, a drug effective in the acute and prophylactic treatment of manic-depressive disorder, were assessed in 43 subjects with affective disorder. Carbamazepine was found to cause statistically significant, but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1196Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1200–1201Eight cocaine-dependent subjects had significantly lower urinary 3- methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol excretion than did eight normal control subjects. Cocaine-dependent subjects also had lower plasma tyrosine levels but not to a statistically significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1200Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1202–1203Among 1,583 psychiatric inpatients, fewer men than women were diagnosed as having borderline personality disorders among whites and blacks but not among Hispanics. No significant differences in the prevalence of borderline personality disorder were found ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1202Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1204–1205Ethanol intoxication has been noted to cause marked changes in brain and CSF levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Using plasma GABA levels to assess brain GABA activity, the authors found that 85 chronic alcoholics had significantly lower levels than ...
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Page1232On page 993 of the August 1985 issue, the reply by George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., to a letter from R. Sandyk, M.D., M.Sc., concerning the article "Clonidine in the Treatment of Mania and Mixed Bipolar Disorder" should also have included the signatures of ...
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