American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 146
- Number 6
- June 1989
Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages697–707The reexperiencing of a traumatic event in the form of repetitive dreams, memories, or flashbacks is one of the cardinal manifestations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The dream disturbance associated with PTSD may be relatively specific for this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.697Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages708–716The authors review the practice of psychiatry in Africa today. They describe the similarities as well as the differences between psychiatry in Africa and in the Western world in the rates, presentations, and treatment of neurosis, depression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.708Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages717–725The authors prospectively studied 24 consecutive cases of neuroleptic malignant syndrome occurring in 20 patients in a general hospital over a 6-year period. They present detailed data concerning the clinical setting in which neuroleptic malignant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.717Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages726–729A study of patterns of neuroleptic dosage for 206 schizophrenic inpatients showed significant differences over time and among three centers--a general hospital psychiatric unit, a community mental health center, and a state hospital. In 1982 patients' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.726Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages730–736The authors determined serotonin2 (5-HT2) binding in the frontal cortex of 32 suicide victims and 37 subjects who died from nonpsychiatric causes. The maximum number of binding sites (Bmax) and the affinity (Kd) were significantly higher in subjects who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.730Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages737–742The authors administered the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale to 4,954 homosexual men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. HIV antibody status at enrollment was a less important predictor of psychological distress than were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.737Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages743–748Low thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) has been repeatedly described in approximately 25% of patients with major depression. Panic disorder appears related to depression along several dimensions, including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.743Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages749–754Effects of hypnotic alterations of perception on amplitude of somatosensory event-related potentials were studied in 10 highly hypnotizable subjects and 10 subjects with low hypnotizability. The highly hypnotizable individuals showed significant decreases ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.749Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages755–758Using a semistructured interview, the author obtained complete histories of experiences of being physically or sexually assaulted from 31 psychiatric outpatients. The majority (68%) of outpatients had experienced major physical and/or sexual assaults, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.755Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages759–763Eighty-three percent (104 of 126) of the accredited child psychiatry fellowships in the United States responded to a survey of current manpower and training problems facing child psychiatry. Thirty-five percent of the respondents were having trouble ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.759Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages764–767In a longitudinal study of 30 successfully treated unipolar depressed patients, the authors evaluated number of depressive episodes, early onset of depression, and lifetime prevalence of affective disorders other than major depression as risk factors for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.764Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages768–770The authors describe five patients with body-dysmorphic disorder who responded preferentially to serotonin reuptake blockers. They review the literature, describe how patients with excessive concern about body abnormalities lie along a spectrum of doubt ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.768Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages771–774The author reviews the literature on disabled physicians and describes her own adjustment to paraplegia. While she was a medical student and practicing internist, she encountered few comments about her disability, but during her later psychiatry residency,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.771Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages775–778Epidemiologic research indicates that a small minority of patients make the great majority of outpatient mental health visits. This small group of long-term patients constitutes the bulk of psychotherapeutic practice and creates a disproportionate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.775Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages779–781Seven male panic patients did not panic but were significantly more sensitive to steady-state carbon dioxide inhalation than five male normal control subjects. The male patients' hypersensitivity to carbon dioxide was unrelated to current state of anxiety ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.779Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages782–784The authors describe four individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV) whose severe depressions were successfully treated with ECT.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.782Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages785–786Mean age at onset was not significantly different in 39 delusional and 70 nondelusional unipolar depressed patients over 60 years of age. The finding was unchanged when sex, concurrent dementia, and medical illness were examined.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.785Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages787–788The authors studied CSF gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in 14 Alzheimer patients and nine age-matched normal subjects. The five normal subjects who were wives of the demented patients had higher CSF GABA concentrations than the four normal subjects without ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.787Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages789–790The authors present three cases of women who began to cut themselves superficially after they had been raped. To the authors' knowledge, no such findings have been reported in the current literature on short- and long-term effects of rape.
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Page818In the review by Peter Ostwald, M.D., of the book Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich, by Harold B. Segel (December 1988 issue, pp. 1602-1603), the name of Klaus Berblinger, M.D., ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.818Publication date: 01 June 1989
Pages818-a–818In the letter to the Editor "Suicidal Tendencies in Women With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection" from George R. Brown, M.D., and James R. Rundell, M.D. (April 1989 issue, pp. 556-557), the reference citation on page 557 on the eighth line from the ...
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