American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 148
- Number 10
- October 1991
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Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1291–1300The renewed public, governmental, and professional interest in addictive disorders should serve to encourage the interest of psychiatrists in this important and rapidly changing field. It is the view of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1291Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1301–1308OBJECTIVE: Phencyclidine (PCP, "angel dust") induces a psychotomimetic state that closely resembles schizophrenia. As opposed to amphetamine- induced psychosis, PCP-induced psychosis incorporates both positive (e.g., hallucinations, paranoia) and negative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1301Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1309–1316OBJECTIVE: The author critically examines the limited world literature on pharmacologic treatments of stuttering. METHOD: The literature on stuttering and drugs was identified by means of two computer-assisted searches. FINDINGS: A great variety of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1309Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1317–1321OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the reliability and validity of a probabilistic approach to clinical assessment of short-term risk of violence. METHOD: At admission, nurses and physicians independently rated the probability that each of 149 psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1317Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1322–1328OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for neuroleptic-induced movement disorders in a group of psychiatrically hospitalized children and adolescents. METHOD: They evaluated the presence or absence of parkinsonism,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1322Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1329–1335OBJECTIVE: Because women with late luteal phase dysphoric disorder (LLPDD) experience symptomatic affective states predictably, they can be studied to determine whether there are biological findings related solely to the clinically symptomatic state. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1329Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1336–1340OBJECTIVE: This study sought to ascertain the affective and cognitive outcome after tricyclic and electroconvulsive treatment of elderly medical-psychiatric patients meeting diagnostic criteria for major depression, some of whom had normal cognitive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1336Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1341–1345OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to assess the quantity and quality of mood variation in depressed persons. METHOD: Using a visual analogue scale, they compared variation of mood in a group of patients (N = 9) with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1341Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1346–1352OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the frequency of depressive syndromes during the first 13 months after the death of a spouse. METHOD: Men and women whose spouses had recently died were identified through death certificate records. These subjects completed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1346Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1353–1358OBJECTIVE: This study sought to describe, the natural history of major depressive disorder in a large group of nonclinical subjects. In particular, the analysis determined demographic and clinical risk factors for the recurrence of major depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1353Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1359–1365OBJECTIVE: This research assessed whether the outcome of schizoaffective disorder is more similar to that of schizophrenia or that of affective disorders. METHOD: The authors conducted a prospective follow-up study of 101 schizoaffective, schizophrenic, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1359Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1366–1370This article describes the evolution of psychiatric consultation to the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners. The board is charged with the licensing and regulation of physicians in the state of Oregon in order to protect the public and uphold the standards ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1366The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and other DSM-III-R axis II personality disorders
Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1371–1377OBJECTIVE: This study examines the comorbidity of DSM-III-R borderline personality disorder and the other axis II personality disorders. The extent and direction of overlap provides a measure of the clarity of its diagnostic boundaries and descriptive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1371Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1378–1385OBJECTIVE: This study tested the hypothesis that the risk for affective and impulsive personality disorder traits commonly found in patients with borderline personality disorder would be greater in the first- degree relatives of probands with borderline ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1378Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1386–1389The author describes the impact of the recent social and political changes in Eastern Europe on psychiatrists and psychiatry. The observations contained in this paper are drawn from his personal experiences as a practicing psychiatrist in East Germany who ...
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Publication date: 01 October 1991
Page1427The correct figure 1 for the article "Clozapine and Norclozapine Plasma Concentrations and Clinical Response of Treatment-Refractory Schizophrenic Patients" by Paul J. Perry, Ph.D., et al. (February 1991 issue, pp. 231-235) is given below. [See figure in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1427Publication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1427-a–1427In the article "New York Under the Rivers Decision: An Epidemiologic Study of Drug Treatment Refusal" by Julie Magno Zito, Ph.D., et al. (July 1991 issue, pp. 904-909), references 15 and 16 in the reference list on p. 909 should be reversed. Reference ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.10.1427-aPublication date: 01 October 1991
Pages1427-b–1427In the reply of James A. Chu, M.D., to a letter to the Editor, "Dissociative Disorders and Complex Partial Seizures," by Wayne H. Peterson, Ph.D. (August 1991 issue, pp. 1106-1107), the attribution for the quotation beginning "Only three of seven patients ...
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