American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 148
- Number 12
- December 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1627–1637OBJECTIVE: The authors seek to clarify, from both an epidemiologic and genetic perspective, the major risk factors for bulimia nervosa and to understand the relationship between narrowly defined bulimia and bulimia-like syndromes. METHOD: Personal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1627Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1638–1646Chronic fatigue syndrome is an increasingly popular diagnosis consisting of multiple psychiatric and somatic symptoms. It bears a striking resemblance to the nineteenth-century diagnosis of neurasthenia. Both disorders arose during periods characterized ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1638Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1647–1658A preliminary but growing body of evidence supports the existence of genetic and biological substrates of personality, suggesting the utility of a psychobiological perspective on the personality disorders. The investigation of biological correlates of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1647Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1659–1664OBJECTIVE: This study measured the overall prevalence of homelessness and tested a priori hypothesized risk factors for homelessness among patients admitted to a state hospital. The risk factors included male gender, age under 40 years, black race, urban ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1659Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1665–1671OBJECTIVE: Clinical reports suggest that many adults who engage in self- destructive behavior have childhood histories of trauma and disrupted parental care. This study explored the relations between childhood trauma, disrupted attachment, and self-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1665Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1672–1674OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to examine the reliability (interexaminer consistency) of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Part II (oral) examination in psychiatry. METHOD: Grades were assigned independently by two examiners who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1672Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1675–1682OBJECTIVE: This study tested previous findings that patients with eating disorders who attain normal weight have abnormal caloric requirements for maintaining weight. METHOD: Fifty-three female patients meeting the DSM-III-R criteria for anorexia nervosa ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1675Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1683–1687OBJECTIVE: The original finding of genetic linkage in an Old Order Amish pedigree has been contradicted by the results of several subsequent studies. Using the same genetic parameter values, diagnostic criteria, and 11p15 genetic markers as those used to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1683Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1688–1696OBJECTIVE: Although depression is one of the most common problems of medical and psychiatric outpatients, it has not been clear whether the extent of medical comorbidity among depressed patients varies across major types of clinical settings in which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1688Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1697–1704OBJECTIVE: Cross-cultural psychiatric research has suffered from many methodological shortcomings. To answer some of these shortcomings, the present study compared rates of psychiatric disorders in Taiwan and the United States by combining data from both ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1697Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1705–1707OBJECTIVE: In the last several decades, considerable evidence has suggested that autism and schizophrenia are unrelated. However, recent reports have suggested that individuals with autism may be at greater risk for schizophrenia and that the conditions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1705Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1708–1711OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine whether individuals who experience transient cocaine-induced paranoia are vulnerable to psychosis. METHOD: The subjects were 20 cocaine-dependent men who had been using more than 5 g of cocaine per week ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1708Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1712–1716OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to document symptoms and changes in dopaminergic function emerging after abrupt cessation of cocaine use. METHOD: After admission, 22 patients with DSM-III-R cocaine dependence were observed drug free for 3 weeks. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1712Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1717–1720OBJECTIVE: A 2-year study was undertaken to determine the frequency of multiple personality disorder among general adult psychiatric inpatients. METHOD: All individuals admitted to two 23-bed acute care wards in a teaching hospital in Winnipeg, Man., were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1717Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1721–1726OBJECTIVE: The major purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of the occurrence of DSM-III diagnoses in patients with primary fibromyalgia syndrome, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and subjects without pain. METHOD: Thirty-five patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.12.1721Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1727–1729The authors surveyed 34 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder for a history of seasonal variations in symptoms and behavior and treated six of these patients with bright light. Overall, the patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder did not report ...
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