American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 148
- Number 9
- September 1991
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Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1138–1149OBJECTIVE: Body dysmorphic disorder, a preoccupation with an imagined defect in physical appearance, has a rich tradition in European psychiatry but has been largely neglected in the United States. Because this little-known disorder is probably more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1138Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1150–1158OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: The article reviews the literature on the psychodynamics of suicide, focusing on factors that will help in evaluating and treating the young suicidal patient. Articles published in refereed journals and books and book chapters based ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1150Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1159–1163OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency and type of psychotic symptoms in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and to test whether there is a relationship between specific psychotic symptoms and episodes of physical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1159Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1164–1171OBJECTIVE: The performance on standard clinical and psychometric assessments of eight elderly individuals with major unipolar depression alone and seven with depression plus mild senile dementia of the Alzheimer type was compared with that of 41 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1164Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1172–1176OBJECTIVE: Some investigators have suggested that major depression might be overdiagnosed in stroke patients because of changes in appetite, sleep, or sexual interest caused by their medical illness; others have suggested that depression may be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1172Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1177–1181OBJECTIVE: This study characterized objectively the hypersomnia frequently seen in the depressed phase of bipolar affective disorder. On the basis of previous work in sleep and affective disorders, it has been hypothesized that the hypersomnia is related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1177Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1182–1188OBJECTIVE: The authors longitudinally examined social competence and positive and negative symptoms in children at risk for schizophrenia, children at risk for affective disorder, and matched normal subjects. METHOD: The subjects were offspring of parents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1182Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1189–1194OBJECTIVE: Lateral ventricle enlargement in schizophrenia has been positively correlated with poor premorbid competence, negative symptoms, and poor treatment response and negatively correlated with concentrations of homovanillic acid (HVA), a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1189Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1195–1199OBJECTIVE: Previous investigators found that persons who had ever met criteria for panic disorder or panic attacks reported more lifetime suicide attempts and ideation than persons who had ever met criteria for other psychiatric disorders. To determine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1195Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1200–1205OBJECTIVE: In April 1989 an outbreak of illness suddenly afflicted student performers in Santa Monica, Calif., and an extensive investigation revealed no environmental cause. To clarify the details of the epidemic and determine whether mass hysteria ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1200Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1206–1212OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was 1) to replicate previous work indicating that antidepressant medication is superior to placebo in the treatment of bulimia nervosa and 2) to assess the long-term efficacy of this form of treatment. METHOD: Eighty ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1206Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1213–1217OBJECTIVE: The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of initial and continued administration of buspirone on sleep induction and maintenance and sleep stage parameters, to determine the presence or absence of any drug-induced side ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1213Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1218–1224OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a behavioral treatment program for achieving initial cocaine abstinence in individuals enrolled in outpatient treatment for cocaine dependence. METHOD: Thirteen consecutively admitted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1218Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1225–1230OBJECTIVE: The authors determined the seroprevalence of HIV-1 among patients admitted to two psychiatric hospitals in New York City. METHOD: Patients consecutively admitted to an acute psychiatric unit in Manhattan and a large state hospital in Queens ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1225Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1231–1233Studies of panic attacks in older adults are virtually nonexistent. The authors surveyed 520 adults with panic attacks; 445 were younger than age 55, 57 were 55 years old or older but had their first panic attack before age 55, and 18 were 55 years old or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1231Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1234–1236The nortriptyline levels of seven depressed mothers and their breast- fed infants were obtained. Nortriptyline was not detected in the infants' sera. However, two of four infants evaluated developed low concentrations of 10-hydroxynortriptyline. No ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1234Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1240–1242Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with single photon emission computed tomography in 10 obsessive-compulsive patients and eight comparison subjects. The patients had a significantly higher ratio of medial-frontal to whole cortex blood flow; this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1240Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1243–1245Six drug-free obsessive-compulsive patients were given single photon emission computerized tomography scans before and during treatment with fluoxetine. The treatment significantly reduced the patients' "hyperfrontality," as determined by the ratio ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1243Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1246–1248Schizotypal patients were found to have a significantly higher mean plasma HVA concentration than normal comparison subjects. Furthermore, plasma HVA concentration positively correlated with "psychotic-like" schizotypal symptoms. These results implicate ...
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Page1282In the article "Parents' Emotional Neglect and Overprotection According to the Recollections of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder" by Hallie Zweig-Frank, Ph.D., and Joel Paris, M.D. (May 1991 issue, pp. 648-651, two numbers in table 1 were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.9.1282Publication date: 01 September 1991
Pages1282-a–1282In the article "Nicotine Potentiation of Haloperidol in Reducing Tic Frequency in Tourette's Disorder" by Brian J. McConville, M.D., et al. (June 1991 issue, pp. 793-794), there was an error in the grant support acknowledgment. The correct name for the ...
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