American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 147
- Number 6
- June 1990
Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages685–695The idea that people suffering from anxiety have a proclivity to consume alcohol to relieve their symptoms is supported by reports showing high comorbidity rates of alcohol and anxiety problems. The authors reviewed relevant epidemiologic surveys, family ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.685Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages696–710HIV directly affects the CNS, primarily causing subcortical neuropathology. Dementia as the initial presentation is rare, but organic mental changes that mimic many functional disorders can occur during the course of infection. The mental status ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.696Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages711–718The authors investigated the relationship between personality disorders and treatment outcome in the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program, which involved 239 outpatients with major depressive disorder ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.711Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages719–724To assess the effects of chronic cocaine intoxication on dopamine receptors in human subjects, the authors evaluated [18F]N- methylspiroperidol binding using positron emission tomography in 10 cocaine abusers and 10 normal control subjects. Cocaine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.719Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages725–728To characterize the nature of rapid cycling affective disorders, the authors analyzed mood fluctuation patterns in 570 patients with affective disorders hospitalized in 1960, 1975, or 1985. Patients' records were rated for the frequency, duration, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.725Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages729–733This study examined the contribution of premilitary, military, and postmilitary risk factors to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other postwar diagnoses in a sample of Vietnam veterans. PTSD was explained primarily by war stressors, including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.729Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages734–739Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were performed on 13 high- functioning male autistic subjects and 13 male nonautistic control subjects comparable in age and nonverbal IQ. Scans were rated for the presence of cerebral cortical malformations. Five ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.734Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages740–745Eye tracking accuracy, which has been found to be impaired in schizophrenic patients and their relatives, was assessed in 26 patients with schizotypal personality disorder, 17 control subjects with other non-schizophrenia-related personality disorders, 29 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.740Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages746–750White House Case subjects typically are schizophrenic patients who have been psychotically preoccupied with a prominent political figure. The authors report the arrest rates for murder, aggravated assault, other assault, and robbery among 192 male White ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.746Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages751–757A factor analysis of the entire item set of the DSM-III criteria was conducted to determine the extent to which the factors that emerged corresponded to the 11 personality disorders and three clusters included in DSM-III. Data were obtained from 552 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.751Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages758–760The authors studied the relationship between religious belief and psychiatric and medical status in 30 elderly women recovering from the surgical repair of broken hips. Religious belief was associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms and better ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.758Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages761–765Of 298 alcoholic subjects studied by the authors, 19% (N = 57) had attempted suicide. Compared with nonattempters, suicide attempters were significantly more likely to be female, to have a lower socioeconomic status, to be younger, to have begun heavy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.761Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages766–771The authors examined the effect of age on sexual function and behavior and on nocturnal penile tumescence in 65 healthy married men aged 45 to 74 years. There was a significant negative relation between age and sexual desire, arousal, and activity and an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.766Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages772–776Unconfirmed reports that 50,000 or more Vietnam veterans have committed suicide give the impression that these veterans are at exceedingly high risk of suicide compared with other veterans and nonveterans of the same age. On the basis of projections from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.772Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages777–779Following a report indicating almost a 100% risk for hyperprolactinemia in cocaine users after 1 month of abstinence, the authors determined the serum prolactin concentrations of 23 male inpatients who had abstained from cocaine for 2-43 weeks. None ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.777Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages780–784This study used three informants to assess pervasiveness of psychopathology in a sample of 100 psychiatrically hospitalized children. Analyses of risk factors for severely disturbed and less disturbed children revealed that hopelessness, anxiety, low self-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.780Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages785–792The author cites significant changes in the conduct of the psychiatric profession between the fourth and ninth decades of this century. Determinants of the changes included the impact of World War II, the National Mental Health Act of 1946, the evolution ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.785Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages793–795To determine whether patients' self-ratings of depression are comparable to clinicians' ratings, 45 depressed adolescents were administered two self-rated scales and two clinician-rated scales. Correlations of scores tended to be high, with higher ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.793Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages796–797One inhalation of 35% CO2 was administered to each of 32 patients with high anxiety ratings. Only patients with panic disorder had increases in reported anxiety upon CO2 intake. CO2-triggered anxiety appears specific for panic disorder and independent of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.796Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages798–800Eleven obsessive-compulsive patients underwent a prospective open-label trial of fluoxetine monotherapy followed by buspirone augmentation. The combination therapy was statistically superior to fluoxetine monotherapy. The results point to the importance ...
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Pages822-a–822In the review by Leston Havens, M.D., and Meredith Fields, M.D., of the book Schizophrenia: Treatment, Process, Outcome, by Thomas H.McGlashan, M.D., and Christopher J. Keats, M.D. (February 1990 issue, p. 248), the second paragraph should read, When this ...
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