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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 149
  • Number 4
  • April 1992

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages443–454

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review is to provide an update of the research regarding depression in Parkinson's disease and to synthesize the information into a neurobiological model relating the structural and biochemical changes in this disorder to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.443

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages455–463

OBJECTIVE: It is of considerable theoretical and clinical importance to assess whether childhood sexual abuse is a risk factor for the development of bulimia nervosa. The authors reviewed the scientific literature bearing on this issue. METHOD: Since ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.455

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages464–469

OBJECTIVE: Earlier, the authors reported on the association of nicotine dependence with major depression and anxiety disorders in a group of young adults. This report describes the occurrence of withdrawal symptoms and their sociodemographic and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.464

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages470–474

OBJECTIVE: Several lines of investigation suggest that the noradrenergic neurotransmitter system may be involved in the pathogenesis of panic disorder. Since a mutation in a gene coding for one of the adrenergic receptors could account for both the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.470

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages475–481

OBJECTIVE: Previous work suggested that children of parents with panic disorder and agoraphobia were likely to be classified as behaviorally inhibited and that behaviorally inhibited children were likely to develop anxiety disorders. However, the factors ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.475

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages482–487

OBJECTIVE: A pattern of chronic adult antisocial behavior is not sufficient for the DSM-III-R diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder unless the early-onset criteria are satisfied, even if the adult criteria are met. The utility of the early-onset ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.482

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages488–493

OBJECTIVE: It has been widely hypothesized that sensory gating failures and sensory overload occur in schizophrenic patients compared to normal subjects. The authors of this study sought to confirm and extend results of earlier studies that showed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.488

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages494–499

OBJECTIVE: Bizarre delusions are assigned greater weight relative to other delusions in the DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia. The decision to emphasize bizarre delusions was based largely on historical tradition rather than empirical evidence. This ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.494

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages500–505

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between plasma haloperidol and clinical response. METHOD: Sixty-nine newly admitted drug-free schizophrenic men were randomly assigned to receive haloperidol, 5, 10, or 20 mg daily for 4 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.500

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages506–510

OBJECTIVE: While neuroleptics remain the mainstay of drug intervention in the emergency management of psychosis, a variety of agents have received study as alternatives or adjuncts to these drugs in an attempt to improve the safety and efficacy of acute ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.506

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages511–513

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to conduct a prospective study comparing the rate of occurrence of neuroleptic-induced dystonia in a group of consecutively admitted manic and schizophrenic patients receiving typical inpatient treatment from several ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.511

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages514–520

OBJECTIVE: The authors' objective was to test the hypothesis that fatigue affects the activities and employment of subjects with HIV infection and that indices of immunosuppression and inflammation may have statistical utility in predicting fatigue and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.514

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages521–524

OBJECTIVE: The American College of Psychiatrists conducted research to validate the content outline of the Psychiatry Resident In-Training Examination (PRITE) and to assess what residency training directors think about the examination. METHOD: A mail ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.521

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages525–530

OBJECTIVE: The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV Work Group on Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder (LLPDD) reanalyzed existing data from prospective, daily symptom ratings to evaluate the DSM-III-R criteria for LLPDD. The objectives were to 1) ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.525

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages531–533

OBJECTIVE: Patients from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of progesterone suppository treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were followed up to determine poststudy PMS symptom levels and medication use. METHOD: An average of 1 year ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.531

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages534–537

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to determine if women with chronic pelvic pain are significantly more likely to use dissociation as a coping mechanism than women without pain. METHOD: The subjects were recruited from women who attended a university women'...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.534

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages538–543

OBJECTIVE: Sleep deprivation is a rapid, nonpharmacologic antidepressant intervention that is effective for a subset of depressed patients. The objective of this study was to identify which brain structures' activity differentiates responders from ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.538

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages544–545

Serological testing of waste bloods revealed that 25 (7%) of 350 acutely ill psychiatric inpatients had HIV infection. Eight of the 10 HIV-positive patients whose serological status was not recorded on admission were discharged with their status still ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.544

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages546–548

The clinical correlates of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) functioning were examined in 29 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease. The 8:00 a.m. postdexamethasone cortisol levels of these patients were highly correlated with higher agitation ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.546

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages549–551

Spin-lattice (T1) and spin-spin (T2) magnetic resonance relaxation times were examined in frontal, temporal, and striatal regions of 24 patients with schizophrenia and 10 normal comparison subjects. The schizophrenic patients had more prolonged T2 values ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.549

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages552–553

To evaluate the effects of previous alcohol and drug use on the course and symptoms of schizophrenia, the authors compared 34 patients with schizophrenia who had histories of substance abuse with 17 patients with schizophrenia who were lifelong ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.552

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages554–556

Comorbidity was studied in 41 manic and mixed-state bipolar patients at first hospitalization. The lifetime prevalence of comorbidity was high; 21 subjects (51.2%) had at least one other psychiatric diagnosis (N = 16, 39.0%) or medical disorder (N = 9, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.554

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages557–559

The authors assessed all measures of religious commitment (N = 139) reported in research studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry in 1978 through 1989 (N less than 35). For nearly two-thirds of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.557

Publication date: 01 April 1992

Pages560–562

Test-retest diagnostic reliability interviews using the Upjohn version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III (SCID) were conducted with 72 patients at 13 international sites of the Cross-National Collaborative Panic Study. Agreement on the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.560

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Publication date: 01 April 1992

Page586

This statement was prepared by the Task Force on Day Care for Early Pre-School Children1 of the APA Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families. It was approved by the Assembly of District Branches in November 1991 and by the Board of Trustees in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.4.586

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