American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 146
- Number 8
- August 1989
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Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages953–962The authors review the important changes in the three sections of DSM- III-R that include only psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and psychotic disorders not elsewhere classified), outline the rationale for these changes, and, where ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.953Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages963–971The authors review the research on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, emphasizing the neurotransmitters and neuromodulators that regulate eating behavior. Anorexia nervosa is associated with changes in the noradrenergic, serotonergic, and opioid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.963Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages972–982Technical advances in surgery and the new antirejection agents cyclosporine and muromonab-CD3 have led to improved outcome for organ transplantation. Allograft rejection and complications of immunosuppressant therapy are often associated with considerable ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.972Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages983–988The authors studied 442 probands with nonbipolar major depression, 64 with bipolar II disorder, and 88 with bipolar I disorder. Although the proband groups did not differ in occupational or educational achievement, the first-degree relatives of probands ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.983Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages989–995To test hypotheses of opposing roles of dopamine and serotonin in prolactin secretion in seasonal affective disorder, the authors determined basal serum prolactin concentrations for premenopausal women, eight with and 14 without seasonal affective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.989Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages996–1000CO2 inhalation has been reported to induce panic attacks in panic disorder patients. State anxiety, somatic symptoms of anxiety, physiological changes, and cerebral blood flow (CBF) were monitored in panic disorder patients before and after intravenous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.996Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1001–1005Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brains of 32 patients who met the DSM-III criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder and of 14 normal subjects frequently revealed abnormalities, but none was specific to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Spin-lattice ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1001Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1006–1011The information-processing correlates of positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients are of increasing clinical research interest. The author tested 40 schizophrenic patients and 35 normal control subjects and reports on two major findings. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1006Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1012–1016The authors report on the use of playing back audiotaped portions of the speech of two schizophrenic patients during psychotherapy. They believe that this audiotape replay was instrumental in organizing the patients' thoughts and spoken communications and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1012Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1017–1021The authors describe psychiatric abnormalities, including personality and affective changes and psychotic symptoms, associated with very mild senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. The behavioral and affective changes in the subjects with very mild ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1017Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1022–1026One of the major controversies during the development of DSM-III-R was the possible inclusion of self-defeating personality disorder. The authors review the clinical literature that serves as the conceptual basis for this diagnosis. The development of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1022Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1027–1031This paper reports on an empirical study of defense mechanisms in 60 psychiatric inpatients. Eight defenses--compensation, denial, displacement, intellectualization, projection, reaction formation, regression, and repression--were studied in the context ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1027Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1032–1036The authors recently reported, in this journal, an epidemiologic survey of autism in Utah. Twenty (9.7%) of the 207 families ascertained had more than one autistic child. Analyses of these data revealed that autism is 215 times more frequent among the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1032Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1037–1040The authors investigated the melatonin response to 5-methoxypsoralen in 39 healthy adult and elderly subjects and in 13 demented, 13 depressed, and 13 schizophrenic inpatients. Subjects' plasma melatonin levels were evaluated before they took single, oral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1037Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1041–1043In a series of 11 melancholic patients who received both right unilateral and bilateral ECT during a single course of treatment, mean and minimum postictal heart rates were greater after bilateral ECT. Greater catecholamine release during bilateral ECT is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1041Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1044–1047The authors studied the response of 10 macaque monkeys to administration of sodium lactate, a panicogenic agent used in human panic disorder research, after treatment with the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine, the triazolobenzodiazepine alprazolam, or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1044Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1048–1051Of 31 consecutive male patients referred for evaluation of marital violence, 19 (61.3%) had histories of severe head injury. Although the relationship between child abuse and head injury did not reach an acceptable level of significance, it did indicate a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1048Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1052–1055Volunteers who claimed they were "healthy and normal" and did not reveal any physical or mental abnormality or medication use during brief structured interviews underwent detailed structured interviews with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1052Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1056–1058Left-handed schizophrenic patients showed lateral ventricular enlargement and generally poorer performance on intelligence and neuropsychological tests compared with right-handed schizophrenic patients. These results suggest that left-handed schizophrenic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1056Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1059–1060While conventional clinical wisdom has been that panic disorder does not occur in children, evidence derived from structured diagnostic interviews suggests that panic disorder, similar in symptom pattern to the adult disorder, does occur in children and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1059Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages1061–1062The lifetime prevalence of interview-determined four-symptom panic attacks in 95 ninth graders was 11.6%. Those with panic attacks were significantly more depressed, were significantly more likely to have separated or divorced parents, and tended to be ...
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Pages1089-b–1089In the article "A Comparison of Three Measures for the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder" (November 1988 issue, pp. 1453-1454) by Lynne E. Angus, Ph.D., and Elsa Marziali, Ph.D., the percent for Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients, ...
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