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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 149
  • Number 2
  • February 1992

Article

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages151–158

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.151

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages159–168

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.159

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages169–174

The 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.149.2.169

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages175–183

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.175

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages184–189

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.184

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages190–194

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.190

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages195–198

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.195

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages199–201

Fifty-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.149.2.199

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages202–206

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.202

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages207–212

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.207

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages213–220

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.213

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages221–226

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.221

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages227–234

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.227

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages235–239

OBJECTIVE: 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.149.2.235

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages240–244

The 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.149.2.240

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages245–247

Magnetic 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.149.2.245

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages248–250

The 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.149.2.248

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages251–254

The 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.149.2.251

Publication date: 01 February 1992

Pages255–257

Previous 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. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.2.255

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