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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 151
  • Number 2
  • February 1994

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages169–176

OBJECTIVE: The most common indication for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is major depression. It is less recognized that ECT is effective also in the treatment of acute mania. This article aims to provide a comprehensive and critical review of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.169

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages178–183

OBJECTIVE: To differentiate withdrawal-related abnormalities in brain glucose metabolism among alcoholics from abnormalities that may be irreversible or antedate alcohol use, the authors evaluated metabolic recovery during alcohol detoxification. METHOD: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.178

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages184–189

OBJECTIVE: As part of a search for measurable attributes of an individual that might be related to the risk of alcoholism, the author's group previously compared 227 sons of alcoholics and 227 matched comparison subjects at the age of about 20 years. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.184

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages190–194

OBJECTIVE: The efficacy of short-term psychotherapy has become an area of increasing interest. The primary objective of this study was to assess the results of two forms of short-term psychotherapy in patients with personality disorders. METHOD: Eighty-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.190

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages195–198

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationships among depression severity, melancholia, and cortisol level and the relationship between temperament, as measured with the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, and cortisol level. METHOD: Morning and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.195

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages199–204

OBJECTIVE: This study used the concept of diagnostic stability to examine the validity of three subtypes of major depression. METHOD: Patients with major depressive disorder (N = 424) were assigned baseline diagnoses according to structured interviews and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.199

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages205–209

OBJECTIVE: The authors compared symptom features of specific subtypes of depressive and anxiety disorders. METHODS: Psychiatric outpatients with moderate levels of psychopathology and DSM-III diagnoses of major depression, dysthymia, panic disorder, or ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.205

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages210–215

OBJECTIVE: The authors analyzed data from a family sample ascertained for a genetic linkage study of bipolar disorder to address the following questions: Do the major clinical subtypes of familial affective disorder have distinct distributions of age at ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.210

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages216–220

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to establish, in a large multicenter sample of patients classified according to gender and menopausal status, if the growth hormone (GH) response to clonidine discriminated patients with episodes of major depression from ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.216

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages221–227

OBJECTIVE: Chronic mentally ill adults have been found to be at risk for HIV infection. The authors investigated the prevalence of HIV risk behaviors among psychiatric outpatients. Correlates of HIV risk factors and characteristics of patient ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.221

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages228–232

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine the frequency and types of sexual behavior among patients with schizophrenia and to assess the behavior with respect to risk of HIV infection. METHOD: Ninety-five inpatients and outpatients with a research ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.228

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages233–236

OBJECTIVE: The authors studied the lifetime, initial cross-sectional, and 6-month follow-up prevalence of mood disorders in asymptomatic HIV- infected and uninfected homosexual men who lived in an area with a low prevalence of HIV. They also determined ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.233

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages237–242

OBJECTIVE: Psychosis is an uncommon but serious complication of infection with HIV. This article presents the results of a study of HIV- infected individuals with psychosis. METHOD: The authors evaluated 20 HIV-infected men who had noniatrogenic new-onset ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.237

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages243–248

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to assess central serotonergic (5- HT) function in aggressive and nonaggressive boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. METHOD: Prolactin response to a challenge dose of the 5-HT agonist d,l-fenfluramine was ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.243

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages249–253

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of a new assessment instrument for positive and negative symptoms in severely disturbed children and adolescents (Kiddie-PANSS). METHOD: The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.249

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages254–259

OBJECTIVE: Relationships between day hospital treatment goals, self- help group participation, and substance use outcome were examined for 180 alcohol- or cocaine-dependent male patients in a day hospital Veterans Administration substance abuse program. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.254

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Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages261–263

Eleven panic disorder patients who panicked in response to exogenous cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK-4) were rechallenged after chronic treatment with imipramine. In the rechallenge the patients displayed a marked reduction in the number and intensity ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.261

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages264–266

The authors compared the maximal duration of voluntary breath-holding in patients with panic disorder (N = 23), patients with generalized social phobia (N = 10), and healthy subjects (N = 26). Patients with panic disorder had significantly shorter breath-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.264

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages267–270

Among 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease, 11 (48%) exhibited cortisol hypersecretion (> or = 11.8 micrograms/dl) and nine (39%) displayed cortisol nonsuppression on the dexamethasone suppression test. Only four patients exhibited both neuroendocrine ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.267

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages271–273

The effects of acute gonadal suppression on sexual function and behavior were studied in eight normal men. Administration of a newly developed, potent gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist induced azoospermia and reduced levels of serum testosterone, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.271

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages274–276

The authors investigated the relationship between Cloninger's personality dimensions and DSM-III-R personality traits by comparison of scores on the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire with axis II traits found in structured interviews with 99 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.274

Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages277–280

Twelve patients with borderline personality disorder and 15 healthy comparison subjects were challenged with single doses of oral m- chlorophenylpiperazine (m-CPP) and placebo. Following m-CPP, the patients experienced decreased anger and fear. Seven of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.277

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Publication date: 01 February 1994

Pages300-a–300

In the letter "An Interaction of Sertraline and Desipramine" by Jorge Barros, M.D., et al. (November 1993, p. 1751), the last paragraph should indicate that sertraline increased desipramine levels in their patient by 150% (not 250%) at the end of week 2.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.2.300-a

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