American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 149
- Number 2
- February 1992
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Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages151–158OBJECTIVE: Insurance companies, legislators, and funding agencies have become increasingly concerned with efficacy and accountability in regard to psychotherapy, and psychodynamic therapy is a primary target of concern because it is widely practiced in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.151Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages159–168OBJECTIVE: The authors critically reviewed the literature on clinical applications of sleep deprivation in the treatment of depression. DATA COLLECTION: They included all studies using sleep deprivation for clinical purposes, with the exception of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.159Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages169–174The finding by a court that the author of a will (the testator) lacked mental capacity or was subject to undue influence at the time the will was executed can invalidate the will. A psychiatrist may be asked to assess the competency of a testator when he ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.169Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages175–183OBJECTIVE: Preliminary studies suggest that during the 1980s, spending for community mental retardation services in the United States may have grown much more rapidly than spending for community mental health. The primary objective of this study was to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.175Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages184–189OBJECTIVE: The goal of this investigation was to study the prevalence of delusions in Alzheimer's disease and to compare the performance of the delusional and nondelusional groups on a neuropsychological test battery. METHOD: The authors studied 107 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.184Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages190–194OBJECTIVE: Although the Global Deterioration Scale has been widely used since its publication in 1982, its stages are based on implicit assumptions about the linearity, temporality, and interdependence of cognitive, functional, and behavioral impairment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.190Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages195–198OBJECTIVE: Few trials of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) in tricyclic-resistant depression have had double-blind conditions. In the authors' previous double-blind comparison of tranylcypromine and imipramine in anergic bipolar depression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.195Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages199–201Fifty-six patients with bipolar affective disorder and 69 healthy control subjects were tested for association of restriction fragment length polymorphism alleles at the dopamine D1 and D2 receptor loci. No significant associations were found; thus, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.199Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages202–206OBJECTIVE: Clinical reports over the last 60 years suggest that the amobarbital interview is effective in relieving catatonic symptoms. This has never been substantiated with methodologically sound trials. The authors postulated that a randomized blind ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.202Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages207–212OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the relationship between violent behavior and decision making about hospitalization from the psychiatric emergency room. METHOD: The medical charts of 321 patients evaluated in an urban psychiatric emergency room during a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.207Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages213–220OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of co- occurrence of axis II disorders in a group of consecutive patients evaluated with two contrasting structured interviews. METHOD: One hundred of 106 consecutive applicants for long-term, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.213Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages221–226OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine whether self- mutilators with personality disorders differ from nonmutilators with personality disorders in impulsivity, aggression, and other psychopathology and whether serotonergic dysfunction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.221Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages227–234OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine the association between mental disorder and morbid obesity, defined as weight at least 100% or 100 lb over ideal body weight. METHOD: Eighty-eight morbidly obese subjects who had come to a tertiary care center ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.227Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages235–239OBJECTIVE: Drug use by patients during inpatient substance abuse treatment is frequently a cause of premature hospital discharge. The authors examined the histories of patients who used drugs while in inpatient substance abuse treatment, the methods used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.235Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages240–244The organic/nonorganic distinction in contemporary classifications of mental disorders such as DSM-III and DSM-III-R has important prognostic and treatment implications, because it directs the clinician to pay special attention to the possibility of an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.240Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages245–247Magnetic resonance imaging measurements were obtained for 12 adults with DSM-III-defined autism and a matched group of 12 normal subjects. No significant differences were found for mean midsagittal areas of pons, fourth ventricle, cerebellar vermis, or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.245Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages248–250The authors examined the relationship between Alzheimer's disease, without cerebrovascular risk factors, and high-intensity signals on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a 1.5-tesla scanner. There were no significant differences in MRI high-intensity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.248Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages251–254The authors compared CSF amino acid levels of 10 patients with mild to moderate dementia and probable Alzheimer's disease who had never received antidepressant or neuroleptic medication with those of 10 normal subjects of similar age. The Alzheimer's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.251Publication date: 01 February 1992
Pages255–257Previous reports have shown abnormalities in brain metabolism and evoked responses of schizophrenic patients with hallucinations. The authors recorded electric and magnetic auditory responses during transitory auditory hallucinations in two patients. ...
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