American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 145
- Number 11
- November 1988
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Publication date: 01 November 1988
PageA5The table of contents for the October 1988 issue should have listed the page references for the following American Psychiatric Association reports, which appeared in the Official Actions section: Report of the Secretary: Summary of Actions of the Board of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.A5Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1351–1357Unrecognized, untreated, and undertreated depressive disorders extract an inordinate human and economic cost, despite the availability of an extensive array of effective clinical interventions. To enhance the availability and quality of care, the National ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1351Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1358–1368Somatization, a tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress in response to psychosocial stress and to seek medical help for it, poses a major medical, social, and economic problem. It is most often associated with depressive and anxiety ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1358Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1369–1378In their own practices and in consultation, requests to psychiatrists to evaluate and treat sleep disorders in the elderly are common. The five million elders in this country receive 35%-40% of the sedative- hypnotics prescribed, despite the fact that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1369Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1379–1383A recent study reported a significant increase in teenage suicides after television newscasts about suicide in the period 1973-1979 and suggested that the increase might have resulted from an imitative effect of television. In the present study, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1379Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1384–1390The regional cerebral blood flow of 12 patients with severe alcohol withdrawal reactions (delirium tremens or impending delirium tremens) was measured during the acute state before treatment and after recovery. Greater cerebral blood flow was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1384Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1391–1395Plasma levels of ACTH were evaluated in 18 sons of alcoholics and 18 sons of nonalcoholics before and after they consumed placebo, 0.75 ml/kg of ethanol, and 1.1 ml/kg of ethanol. The analyses revealed significant changes in ACTH levels over time, an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1391Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1396–1403The authors studied the impact of China's one-child-per-couple family planning policy on child development in 697 preschool children in the city of Nanjing and in two rural areas surrounding Nanjing. A home- visit questionnaire survey including a Chinese ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1396Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1404–1408The authors examined the reliability, sensitivity, and specificity of DSM-III and DSM-III-R criteria for autism in relation to each other and to clinical diagnoses in 114 children and adults (52 diagnosed by clinicians' best judgment as autistic and 62 as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1404Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1409–1413There are no minimum standards for the clinical training of psychiatrists with regard to the type and number of patients evaluated or treated. Interest in establishing such standards derives from a need for greater accountability, a high fail rate on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1409Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1416–1419The authors compared correlates of admission for 100 patients older than 18 years and 100 patients younger than 18 evaluated in a psychiatric emergency service. Stepwise linear logistic regression analysis identified a combination of variables that best ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1416Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1420–1423The authors report on the prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior in youth age 12-16 years. The data, from a community prevalence survey, show that 5%-10% of the male and 10%-20% of the female youth reported suicidal behavior within a 6-month ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1420Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1424–1427Data relevant to variations in self-destructive behavior are reported for 40 female borderline inpatients. These data were assessed in relation to measures of the patients' suicidal intent, the lethality of their attempts, and their empirically derived ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1424Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1428–1430The authors interviewed 144 consecutive female psychiatric patients and found that those with a lifetime history of either panic disorder or agoraphobia with panic attacks (panic/agoraphobia) were more likely than other patients to report a history of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1428Risk of malignant hyperthermia among patients with neuroleptic malignant syndrome and their families
Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1431–1434The occurrence of malignant hyperthermia in 20 patients who had had neuroleptic malignant syndrome and in their 108 first-degree relatives was retrospectively studied. The patients had experienced a total of 20 courses of ECT and 12 surgical operations in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1431Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1435–1437The amount of time consultation psychiatrists in a large metropolitan teaching hospital spent providing direct services was studied over 1,104 consecutive consultation cases. Although the majority of cases required less than 5 hours of psychiatric time ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1435Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1438–1441The case records of 1,000 consecutive rape victims seen at a crisis center were analyzed to identify important categories of rape victimization. The most noteworthy finding was a replication and extension of the blitz rape and confidence rape typology. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1438Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1442–1445This study examined the interrelationships among occupational exposure to mixtures of organic solvents, neurobehavioral functioning, and complaints of cacosmia. The latter was defined as nausea, headaches, and subjective distress in individuals exposed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1442Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1446–1449The authors compared DSM-III and DSM-III-R definitions of schizophrenia among 532 inpatients treated in a long-term residential setting and reevaluated an average of 15 years later. Largely by excluding those with nonbizarre delusions (somatic, grandiose, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1446Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1450–1452In a sample of 136 psychiatrically hospitalized children, panic disorder was identified in four boys and three girls. Six had separation anxiety disorder, and four had depressive disorders. This report documents the occurrence of panic disorder in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1450Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1453–1454Three instruments for diagnosing borderline personality disorder were administered to 22 outpatients. There was poor concordance among the indexes for the identification of the disorder, and more than half of the sample received more than two DSM-III axis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1453Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1455–1456In a study of 135 schizophrenic and 46 manic male patients treated with neuroleptics, a significantly higher proportion of the manic patients (26.1%) than of the schizophrenic patients (5.9%) developed acute dystonia. This suggests a higher vulnerability ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1455Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1457–1459Eye blink rate was measured in four subjects with seasonal affective disorder and in four control subjects before and after phototherapy. The subjects with seasonal disorder blinked twice as often as the control subjects before therapy but no differently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1457Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1460–1461Cold agglutinin titers were obtained from the serum of 41 psychiatric patients. The 21 chronic schizophrenic patients tended to have positive cold agglutinin titers; the authors suggest that this immunological finding may be associated with long-term ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.11.1460Publication date: 01 November 1988
Pages1462–1463The author describes 10 patients with tics of the ear. The pathogenesis of this disorder is uncertain, but psychological factors may play an important role. This may be the first report of this disorder in the English literature.
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Page1494This statement was proposed by the Committee on Occupational Psychiatry1 of the Council on National Affairs. It was approved by the Board of Trustees in June 1988.
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