American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 151
- Number 10
- October 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1409–1416OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to assess the twentieth-century literature on outcome in schizophrenia for historical trends that might be associated with changes in diagnostic and therapeutic practice and to test the hypothesis that both improved ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1409Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1417–1422OBJECTIVE: The prevalence, clinical correlates, and outcome of the deficit syndrome were determined for 70 patients ascertained in their first episode of schizophrenia and then followed through their recovery. METHODS: Patients were treated in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1417Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1423–1429OBJECTIVE: The present study investigated the concordance of clinical and research-based DSM-III-R diagnoses in community, public, and university hospital first-admission patients. In addition to demographic characteristics, information and criterion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1423Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1430–1436OBJECTIVE: This study examined the pathomorphology of the caudate nuclei in first-episode schizophrenic patients with minimal previous neuroleptic exposure. METHOD: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was used to examine longitudinally the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1430Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1437–1447OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine whether patients experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia differ from healthy subjects in regional cerebral hemispheric volumes or asymmetries. METHOD: Regional volumes corresponding to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1437Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1448–1452OBJECTIVE: Previous research has yielded conflicting results regarding the hypothesis that structural abnormalities of the cerebellar vermis and other posterior fossa structures are associated with schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to apply ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1448Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1453–1462OBJECTIVE: The Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms is a widely used instrument for measuring negative symptoms in schizophrenia, but few studies have examined its reliability. This study examined the interrater, internal, and test-retest ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1453Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1463–1467OBJECTIVE: Outpatient clinical trials with an opioid antagonist, naltrexone, found that this agent reduces relapse drinking in abstinent alcoholics. It is unknown which aspects of intoxication may be affected by naltrexone. The authors investigated the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1463Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1468–1474OBJECTIVE: This study compared three methods for identifying type 1 and type 2 alcoholism to determine how well the methods agree. It also evaluated the comparability of each of these schemes to the primary/secondary approach to subgrouping alcoholics. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1468Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1475–1478OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of psychiatric comorbidity on specific measures of hospital utilization, including length of stay, among hospitalized AIDS patients. METHOD: Data collection involved medical record abstraction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1475Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1479–1484OBJECTIVE: The variability of the decline in immune function among those infected by HIV raises the possibility that psychological factors might help to explain the differences. Since studies of other populations have shown natural killer (NK) cells to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1479Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1485–1491OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between behavior and serotonin by using a nonhuman primate model of aggression and impulse control. METHOD: During a routine capture and medical examination, 26 adolescent male rhesus ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1485Article
Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1493–1495Functional echo planar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probably will be of importance in assessing brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders. The authors used functional MRI to measure the relative magnitude of the change in image signal intensity, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1493Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1496–1498The authors present data from the Republic of Croatia on schizophrenia rates in a birth cohort prenatally exposed to the 1957 A2 influenza epidemic and in comparison (unexposed) birth cohorts. The rate of schizophrenia did not differ significantly between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1496Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1499–1502Twenty schizophrenic inpatients with either predominantly positive or predominantly negative symptoms were treated with the dopamine autoreceptor agonist roxindole in prospective open clinical trials. There was no antipsychotic effect in the subgroup with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1499Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1503–1504Women with prospectively confirmed premenstrual syndrome (N = 21) reported greater alcohol use than comparison subjects (N = 16) in a longitudinal study. The difference in reported alcohol use was not confined to the premenstruum, nor did it correlate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1503Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1505–1508Using high-resolution single photon emission computed tomography, the authors studied changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) in six healthy men after the men rapidly consumed intoxicating amounts of ethanol. When the subjects were given intravenous placebo ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.10.1505Article
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Publication date: 01 October 1994
Page1526In table 2 of the article "Recovery of Brain Glucose Metabolism in Detoxified Alcoholics" by Nora D. Volkow, M.D., et at. (February 1994 issue, pp. 178-183), the regional metabolic values for the alcoholic subjects 31-60 days after detoxification included ...
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