American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 142
- Number 7
- July 1985
Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages787–797Several serious questions exist regarding the diagnostic classification of anxiety disorders. The authors examine the diagnostic validity of generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder and explore their relationship to major depression, critically ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.787Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages798–805Diagnosis across cultural boundaries has become a practical rather than an esoteric matter as migration, the number of effective psychiatric therapies, and access to psychiatric care have increased. Cross- cultural diagnosis involves such theoretical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.798Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages806–810Lawsuits seeking compensation for the suffering caused by tardive dyskinesia are becoming more common. Although most mental health professionals view the problem in the context of malpractice litigation, tardive dyskinesia is an example of a "mass ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.806Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages811–816The authors took multiple serum samples for measurement of melatonin between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. in seven male depressed patients with melancholia and five healthy male control subjects and found that melancholic patients had a significantly lower ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.811Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages817–821An earlier report described symptoms and background features in depressed probands grouped by polarity: bipolar I, bipolar II, and nonbipolar. The present study made similar comparisons among relatives with a lifetime history of major depression. The 73 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.817Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages822–826Thirty psychotic patients who refused antipsychotic medication were compared with 30 patients matched for age, sex, treatment ward, commitment status, and diagnosis who consented to drug treatment. Refusers were no more assaultive or combative than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.822Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages827–832The authors examine the long-term stability of the subtypes of schizophrenia defined by four diagnostic systems. When all patients were considered, agreement between subtype assigned at index and follow- up was modest. This agreement increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.827Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages833–837In March and April 1983, an epidemic of "mysterious gas poisoning" occurred in the Jordan West Bank region, affecting more than 900 persons, predominantly schoolgirls. That both Arabs and Israelis believed there was an etiologic poisonous substance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.833Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages840–843The presence of antithyroid (antimicrosomal and antithyroglobulin) antibodies was assessed in 45 psychiatric inpatients with prominent depressive symptoms (28 with DSM-III major depression). Nine patients (20%) had detectable titers of antithyroid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.840Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages844–848The authors administered the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) to outpatients, who were free from psychoactive drugs for at least 10 days before the test, with primary affective disorder (N = 60), generalized anxiety disorder (N = 26), panic disorder (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.844Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages848–850In 1970, 100 regular marijuana users and 50 of their nonuser friends underwent a psychiatric evaluation. Of these, 97 users and all 50 nonusers were reinterviewed 6-7 years later. At follow-up, 60% of both groups had a psychiatric diagnosis. Antisocial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.848Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages851–854The authors determined the prevalence of binge eating and bulimia in samples of 139 working women and 234 women who were university students. Although binge eating was found in 57 (41%) of the working women and 161 (69%) of the university women, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.851Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages855–858The authors assessed three systems for diagnosing borderline personality disorder: DSM-III, the checklist criteria of Spitzer et al., and the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients. In an inpatient sample of 51 patients, 43 (84%) met the criteria of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.855Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages859–861Three patients receiving alprazolam developed, within days after beginning treatment, acute excitatory states with features more suggestive of mania than of disinhibition syndrome. The authors suggest a neurochemical link between mania and disinhibitory ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.859Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages862–864The authors studied the immunological influences of maternal or peer separation in adult monkeys. Monkeys with early separation experiences were found to have reduced proliferative responses to B and T cell mitogens but no differences in other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.862Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages864–866Panic attacks followed sodium lactate infusions in one of seven patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 26 of 48 patients with panic disorder or agoraphobia with panic attacks. This suggests that lactate-induced panic is specific to the latter ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.7.864Publication date: 01 July 1985
Pages866–868Among 18 elderly depressed patients given ECGs before and during nortriptyline treatment, plasma E-10-hydroxynortriptyline and the sum of E-10-hydroxynortriptyline and nortriptyline distinguished the group with conduction/repolarization effects. Plasma ...
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Pages888-a–888In the article "A Controlled Clinical Trial of Alprazolam for the Treatment of Anxiety" by Karl Rickels, M.D., et al. in the January 1983 issue (pp. 82-85), the last complete sentence in column 1 on page 84 should read, "In a second preference rating ...
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