American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 143
- Number 8
- August 1986
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Pages962–967The authors examine and critique the methodological underpinnings and programmatic goals of DSM-III's underlying doctrine--strict empiricism. The methodological program of DSM-III emphasizes description and the reduction of inference and theory. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.962Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages968–975As clinical research in psychiatry has grown in importance and promise in the past decade, the need for a growing pool of skilled clinician- researchers has been increasingly recognized. Compared with physicians in other specialties, psychiatrists in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.968Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages976–981The ventricle-brain ratio (VBR) of 28 drug-free male schizophrenic inpatients was significantly higher than that of 21 matched normal control subjects and was not related to severity of positive or negative symptoms. Response to haloperidol in an open 6-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.976Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages982–986One hundred and seven patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and 111 patients with advanced gastric cancer, stratified for key medical and sociodemographic variables, were assessed with the Profile of Mood States before beginning combination ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.982Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages987–992This paper focuses on the etiology, recognition, and treatment of established pathological grief reactions in parents bereaved by stillbirth. Bereavement in this situation differs in a number of aspects from conventional bereavement, and these dictate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.987Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages993–997The prevalence of smoking among psychiatric outpatients (N = 277) was significantly higher than among either local or national population- based samples (N = 1,440 and 17,000) (52% versus 30% and 33%). The higher prevalence was not associated with the age,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.993Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages998–1003A retrospective study of 86 children aged 6-12 years who had been hospitalized for psychiatric reasons revealed that adult criteria for borderline personality disorder could identify a group of children with many of the features attributed in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.998Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1004–1009The author describes 15 children with behavioral disturbances, a characteristic neuropsychological profile, and neurological findings consistent with right-hemisphere damage or dysfunction. Almost all of the children had attention deficit disorder. Some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1004Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1010–1014To investigate the diagnostic patterns for neuroses in China, Japan, and the United States, the authors showed videotapes and brief written case histories of six Chinese patients to psychiatrists and psychiatrists-in-training in Beijing, Tokyo, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1010Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1015–1019The author contends that the medical-industrial complex has come to dominate a substantial and growing segment of the health care "market." This complex is characterized by its ability to charge and collect for services, pass through its capital costs, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1015Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1020–1023Even for nonforensic clinicians, the assessment of the patient's competence has grown in importance, particularly regarding the issues of informed consent and right to treatment. However, the incompetence of patients with paranoid states, depression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1020Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1024–1027Psychometric characteristics of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) were evaluated with 148 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and concurrent validity were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1024Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1027–1029The malignant hyperthermia syndrome is a rare hypermetabolic state that occurs in patients after the administration of certain drugs, most frequently anesthetics and/or succinylcholine. In view of the widespread use of succinylcholine to induce muscle ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1027Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1030–1032Twenty-five inpatients with DSM-III major depressive disorder received ECT and were interviewed with the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders. Patients with and patients without a personality disorder had similar short-term responses to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1030Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1033–1035Eleven panic disorder patients who had experienced a major loss or separation in the year before they had their first panic attack were significantly more likely to develop a subsequent major depression than were 22 patients who had not suffered such a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1033Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1035–1037Six patients with seasonal affective disorder showed marked improvement in depressive symptoms after following three different 2-hour schedules of bright artificial light, and they relapsed when the light was withdrawn.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1035Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1038–1039Four patients whose depressions were failing to respond to administration of tricyclic antidepressants were given separate trials of T3 and lithium. In all four cases, T3 failed to potentiate the antidepressant, whereas the lithium did.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1038Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1040–1041The correlation coefficients among four different measures of seizure duration (motor activity, EEG spikes, EEG total, tachycardia) were substantially lower with unilateral than bilateral ECT. This suggests that unilateral ECT is less well generalized ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.1040Publication date: 01 August 1986
Pages1042–1044Thirty-nine patients with "double depression" (major depression and dysthymia) were compared to 38 patients with recurrent major depression without dysthymia on a number of severity of illness, psychosocial, and biological variables. No significant ...
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Page1072In the article "Reduced TSH and Prolactin Responses to TRH in Patients With Panic Disorder" (April issue, pp. 503-507) by Peter P. Roy-Byrne, M.D., et al., the footnote acknowledging grant support from the Upjohn Company is incorrect and should not have ...
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