American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 147
- Number 7
- July 1990
Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages823–829The author describes the multidimensionality of hypnosis itself and hence of hypnotizability. He also points to the lack of clarity regarding the concept of dissociation and the extent to which its roots lie in the clinical experience of hypnosis. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.823Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages830–837A depressive type of personality disorder has been described by both German phenomenologists and psychoanalysts and has been used by clinicians for years. Although this personality type has been included in standard international nosologic systems (ICD-9),...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.830Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages838–849The relationship between anxiety and cerebral blood flow (CBF) is of considerable clinical and research significance. Although a considerable amount of information is available on mechanisms through which anxiety may influence CBF, this topic has not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.838Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages850–854The author examined the relationship between symptom criteria for major depression and family history of mood disorders in 82 outpatients with major depression and 27 outpatients with nonaffective disorders. The family members of depressed patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.850Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages855–860The authors longitudinally evaluated the cognitive functions of patients with probable Alzheimer's disease who also met criteria for major depression and compared them with matched patients with Alzheimer's disease who were not depressed. They found no ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.855Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages861–866The lifetime prevalence of symptoms of a major depressive episode was estimated in two large samples of randomly selected community residents that included many Mexican-Americans. Approximately 5% to 40% of the subjects reported each symptom cluster. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.861Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages867–870The authors report a series of illustrative cases in which patients presented with sudden "spells" of anger with physical features that resembled panic attacks but lacked the affects of fear and anxiety. These spells or "attacks" of anger were experienced ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.867Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages871–875Bulimic subjects who responded to intensive group psychotherapy plus imipramine or placebo or to imipramine alone (N = 68) were assigned to 4-month maintenance with weekly support groups and/or medication (placebo or imipramine) and were evaluated 6 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.871Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages876–881To determine whether fluoxetine is effective in the long-term treatment of obesity and whether it is particularly useful in the treatment of obese binge-eaters, the authors randomly assigned 45 obese subjects (22 with binge-eating problems and 23 without ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.876Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages882–886Oxytocin is a hypothalamic neuropeptide with both centrally and peripherally directed pathways. Data from experimental animals indicate that oxytocin impairs consolidation of aversively conditioned behaviors and is released after feeding or experimental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.882Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages887–892Studies have reported high rates of childhood abuse in people with psychiatric illness. This study examined whether dissociative symptoms are specific to patients with histories of abuse. Ninety-eight female psychiatric inpatients completed self-report ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.887Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages893–900Ventricle-brain ratio was measured by CT scan in 24 bipolar patients, 27 unipolar patients with major depression, 108 schizophrenic patients, and 75 normal control subjects. The male bipolar patients had significantly larger ventricles, but the depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.893Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages901–906Environmental illness is an increasingly frequent and medically unexplained syndrome of "allergy" to common environmental agents. A recent outbreak of chemical-induced illness allowed study of psychological factors in environmental illness. Thirty-seven ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.901Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages907–909Serum lithium levels were analyzed in six healthy, normal women during the midfollicular, midluteal, and premenstrual phases of their menstrual cycles after they had received 300 mg of lithium carbonate orally. An identical protocol was followed for seven ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.907Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages910–912Psychiatrists' beliefs regarding gender-appropriate behavior may influence their treatment of patients. Psychiatrists of both sexes (men: N = 76; women: N = 57) were asked to characterize optimal mental health for hypothetical female and male patients on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.910Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages913–917All 322 patients at a psychiatric clinic for Indochinese refugees were surveyed to determine the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If PTSD was not diagnosed at the time of initial evaluation, a structured reinterview was performed. Seventy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.913Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages918–922The authors report an exploratory effort to identify useful criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. They used the semistructured Diagnostic Interview for Narcissism to assess 24 narcissistic patients and 58 others on 33 characteristics imputed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.918Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages923–928Many agents that affect the brain's serotonergic system appear to be at least partially effective in the treatment of patients with obsessive- compulsive disorder. However, in this 10-week double-blind trial in which 10 patients received sertraline and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.923Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages929–933The authors investigated indices of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis function in patients with social phobia. They found no differences between patients with social phobia and age- and sex- matched control subjects in plasma T3, T4, free T4, or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.7.929Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages933–937This prospective study analyzed relationships between skin conductance and heart rate measures of orienting in a noninstitutionalized sample of 101 15-year-old male subjects and criminal behavior as assessed at age 24 years. Subjects with a criminal ...
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Pages964-a–964In the article "Spectral Analysis of Cyclic Symptoms in Late Luteal Phase Dysphonic Disorder" by Sally K. Sevenino, M.D., et al. (September 1989 issue, p. 1159), the first whole sentence on the page should read, In the analysis of these data, we found ...
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