American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 142
- Number 5
- May 1985
Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages527–537The author presents a new concept of the term "body image." He also introduces the term "extraneous body image," i.e., one's mental representation of others' appearance and behavior. The formation of one's own and extraneous body images and their role in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.527Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages538–546The authors review the literature pertaining to the roles of psychopathology and personality variables in traffic accidents. They review studies of nonpsychiatric and psychiatric samples and examine the roles of suicide, life events, alcohol, and drugs. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.538Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages547–552Thirty-seven adult patients meeting the Utah criteria for attention deficit disorder, residual type, were entered into a double-blind crossover trial of methylphenidate and placebo. A moderate-to-marked therapeutic response occurred in 21 (57%) of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.547Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages553–558The authors examine DSM-III personality disorders in a longitudinally followed community sample of middle-aged inner city men. Eighty-six (23%) of the subjects received an axis II diagnosis of personality disorder. Although these men received relatively ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.553Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages559–563The authors intensively studied 207 patients hospitalized because of suicidal ideation, but not for recent suicide attempts, at the time of admission. During a follow-up period of 5-10 years, 14 patients committed suicide. Of all the data collected at the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.559Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages564–571Local cerebral metabolic rates were determined by positron emission tomography and the deoxyglucose method in a group of 10 chronic schizophrenic subjects before and after somatic treatment and in eight normal subjects. Before treatment, schizophrenic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.564Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages572–576The authors explored the relationship between the antiobsessional and antidepressant effects of tricyclic drugs in primary obsessive- compulsive disorders. Study 1 consisted of a controlled 12-week trial with clomipramine (N = 7) and placebo (N = 5); ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.572Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages577–581The authors compared the family interaction patterns of Japanese- American and Caucasian families in Hawaii by rating videotapes of structured family interactions. There were significant differences between the two groups in many aspects of family ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.577Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages581–587The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between bulimia in women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia of a similar severity in normal-weight women and to determine the support for the distinction between these two groups according to DSM-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.581Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages588–592Depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior in 64 adolescent psychiatric patients were assessed by a structured interview and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. The medical seriousness of suicidal behavior was associated with conscious ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.588Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages593–599A longstanding controversy is the relative dangerousness and criminality of the mentally ill. The author presents observational data from 1,072 police-citizen encounters in an urban area. The data show that persons exhibiting signs of serious mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.593Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages600–605In a critical review of studies of training programs for elderly individuals with cognitive deficits, the author found that decrements of cognitive function with aging are not small. In 70-year-old normal individuals, losses are on the order of 20%-40%, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.600Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages606–608Four patients with major depression who were unresponsive to antidepressant medications rapidly improved and remained euthymic after an advance of the sleep-wake cycle. Phase advance of the sleep-wake cycle and antidepressant treatment may have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.606Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages608–612Fourteen of 134 consecutively admitted manic patients exhibited emotional blunting in addition to the full manic syndrome. The authors compared these 14 blunted manic patients with the remaining 120 nonblunted manic patients and with 31 schizophrenic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.608Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages613–615The development of school phobia has been reported in some patients with Tourette syndrome treated with haloperidol. The author reports on a patient who developed school phobia on each of three trials with pimozide, a neuroleptic chemically similar to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.613Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages616–618The authors reviewed the case records of a random sample of 126 Australian Vietnam veteran inpatients, recorded the diagnostic and background data, and made new DSM-III diagnoses. Neurotic disorders accounted for 49% of the primary or secondary diagnoses. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.616Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages619–623Twelve inpatients with major depression refractory to at least two controlled antidepressant trials had tranylcypromine added to ongoing lithium treatment. Eleven patients showed reliable improvement in nurses' depression ratings compared with a prior ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.619Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages624–627Two nontreatment studies of tardive dyskinesia were examined to see if giving or refusing informed consent might bias results. Three prominent psychiatric journals were also reviewed to determine whether the outcome of informed consent procedures was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.624Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages627–630The authors describe the use of a 4-point rating scale for DSM-III axis II categories in a hospital-based outpatient clinic. Fifty-one percent of the sample met the criteria for one or more DSM-III personality disorders. This increased to 88% when the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.627Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages631–633Dexamethasone suppression tests were given to seven children with major depression, six dysthymic children, and 17 children without affective disorders. The test showed sensitivity for major depressive disorder (87%) but a low specificity (53%).
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.631Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages634–637In 1982, 2 years after the introduction of DSM-III, the authors sent questionnaires to 1,313 psychiatrists in the United States asking what criteria they used to diagnose schizophrenia. They received responses from 341 and compared these with responses of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.634Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages638–640Positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose revealed greater right than left hemispheric impairment of cortical glucose metabolism in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease who were younger than 65 but not in those over 65. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.638Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages640–642The authors present three cases of patients with neuroleptic-induced akathisia who were successfully treated with nadolol, a peripherally acting beta blocker. They discuss the potential implications of this finding.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.5.640Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages643–644Fifty-nine subjects 5-16 years old with major depressive disorder were assessed for the presence of separation anxiety and antisocial behavior, mentioned in DSM-III as associated features of the disorder in children and adolescents. The findings of the ...
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Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages666-b–666At the end of the letter to the Editor "Anorexia Nervosa and Affective Disorders" by Professor M.W. deVries in the January 1985 issue (pp. 140-141), Professor deVries's address should have been Maastricht, The Netherlands. The staff regrets this error.
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