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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 149
  • Number 7
  • July 1992

Article

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages858–866

Psychiatry's appropriate agenda and severe distractions in sustaining it are presently a concern and have historically been so as we struggle with the issues of linking body, mind, and human purpose. Biology requires behaving, variability, and the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.858

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages867–876

The authors review current understanding of manic syndromes and bipolar disorders in the elderly, emphasizing the limited number of systematic studies available. Discussion is focused on the validity of late age at onset as a nosologic distinction in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.867

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages877–885

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to consider the extent to which key characteristics of their parents influence children's later socialization in terms of social networks and intimate relationships and thus to examine whether there is evidence of such ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.877

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages886–889

OBJECTIVE: There is growing concern that chronic mentally ill adults living in the community have a high risk for HIV infection. The purpose of this study was to identify risk knowledge, high-risk behaviors, and risk-related encounters of chronic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.886

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages890–897

OBJECTIVE: The authors previously reported that in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia the affected twin almost invariably had a smaller anterior pes hippocampus, measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and invariably had less regional ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.890

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages898–903

OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: This study compared 32 consecutively admitted first-episode schizophreniform patients, 26 patients with chronic schizophrenia according to the DSM-III-R criteria, and 25 normal comparison subjects on a comprehensive battery of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.898

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages904–908

OBJECTIVE: The objectives were 1) to investigate differences among patients with subjective insomnia (sleep state misperception), patients with objective findings of insomnia, and normal volunteers and 2) to assess the consistency of the sleep findings ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.904

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages909–913

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the conservatorship process in California by studying a group of psychiatric patients for whom conservatorship was sought; their goal was to determine its effectiveness both during and after the period of conservatorship. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.909

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages914–917

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between marital disruption and major depressive episodes. METHOD: The analyses were based on longitudinal, community-based data from the New Haven Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program on respondents ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.914

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages918–923

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to examine patients with closed head injuries for the presence of depressive disorders. METHOD: A consecutive series of 66 patients with closed head injuries but no significant spinal cord or other organ system injury ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.918

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages924–930

OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated a possible cortical brain dysfunction associated with infantile autism. METHOD: They measured regional cerebral blood flow with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and xenon-133 in 21 children with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.924

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages931–935

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to examine subjective and objective predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHOD: Hospitalized burn patients were assessed 1 week after injury with both objective predictors (percent of burned area and facial ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.931

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages936–943

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a group stress reduction program based on mindfulness meditation for patients with anxiety disorders. METHOD: The 22 study participants were screened with a structured clinical interview ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.936

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages944–946

OBJECTIVE: Most research on treatment for panic disorder has involved chronic forms of the illness. To determine the efficacy of early intervention, the authors examined the effects of treatment for patients with panic attacks who were seen in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.944

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages947–950

OBJECTIVE: Although the role of pregnancy and childbirth in postpartum psychosis and depression has been studied, the association between pregnancy and obsessive-compulsive disorder has not been specifically addressed. The authors evaluated the role of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.947

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages951–957

Homeless mentally ill persons are highly visible subjects of ongoing public discussion and potent symbols of a host of contemporary social problems. They present psychiatry with a scientific challenge that calls for further elucidation of the sources of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.951

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages958–961

Six patients with anorexia nervosa, the same patients after weight normalization, and six healthy control subjects had similar fasting and postprandial plasma cholecystokinin concentrations. These data do not support the hypothesis that low levels of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.958

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages962–964

Eleven patients with panic disorder were challenged with cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK-4) on two occasions. The effects of CCK-4 were consistent except symptom onset was more rapid with the second injection. Demonstrating that the effects of CCK-4 are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.962

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages965–967

The authors prospectively examined the prevalence of somatization symptoms among community respondents after a natural disaster in Puerto Rico. Exposure to the disaster was related to a higher prevalence of medically unexplained physical symptoms, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.7.965

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