American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 151
- Number 3
- March 1994
Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages330–341OBJECTIVE: Knowledge of sexual behavior in the United States is necessary for 1) directing risk-reduction interventions aimed at preventing transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted pathogens and 2) appreciating the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.330Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages343–350OBJECTIVE: Investigations of the relation of clinical features of schizophrenia to neuroanatomic measures have produced inconclusive results. The purpose of this study was to examine measures of whole- brain volume in men and women and relate them to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.343Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages351–356OBJECTIVE: The authors explore the antecedents, symptom progression, and long-term outcome of patients diagnosed as having the deficit syndrome, a putative domain of psychopathology and subtype of schizophrenia defined by Carpenter's group. METHOD: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.351Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages357–362OBJECTIVE: Auditory hallucinations are a serious problem for a large subgroup of psychotic patients who do not respond optimally to neuroleptic medication. It has been hypothesized that hearing imaginary voices involves the same physiological processes as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.357Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages363–367OBJECTIVE: The goal of this investigation was to study the relationship between information-processing deficits and thought disorder in schizophrenic patients. METHOD: Fifty-two subjects diagnosed with schizophrenia were administered tests of information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.363Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages368–371OBJECTIVE: A number of reports have suggested that early brain trauma, especially obstetric complications, may be associated with schizophrenia. This observation seems at variance with the similar rates of schizophrenia reported for advanced and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.368Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages372–378OBJECTIVE: The authors attempted to replicate previous findings of relationships of CSF dopamine beta-hydroxylase with premorbid functioning and computerized tomography (CT) scan measures in a new cohort of schizophrenic patients. METHOD: Data on CSF ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.372Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages379–384OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to develop a model based on the authors' previous studies to identify which neuroleptic-treated schizophrenic patients are at risk of early relapse following drug withdrawal. METHOD: Clinical and CSF monoamine-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.379Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages385–389OBJECTIVE: The goals of this study were 1) to determine the extent of substance abuse in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and 2) to assess the relevance of such abuse to subsequent response to treatment with clozapine. METHOD: The subjects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.385Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages390–396OBJECTIVE: This study measured the annual rate of cognitive change in patients with Alzheimer's disease and determined the effects of clinical variables on that rate. It also compared the ability of two cognitive scales to measure change over the entire ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.390Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages397–401OBJECTIVE: This study examined the childhood histories of trauma, parental attitudes toward health, and physical illness in hypochondriacal adults. METHOD: Sixty outpatients with DSM-III-R hypochondriasis and 60 nonhypochondriacal outpatients from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.397Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages402–407OBJECTIVE: This study had three aims: to determine whether sexual abuse increases the risk of developing bulimia nervosa, to see whether any increase in risk is specific to bulimia nervosa, and to determine whether patients referred for treatment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.402Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages408–412OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to gain a broader perspective on social anxiety in the community than has been achieved by epidemiologic surveys to date. METHODS: The authors conducted a telephone survey of social anxiety among 526 randomly selected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.408Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages413–420OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of DSM-III-R panic disorder and to describe its correlates. METHOD: The study was part of the National Comorbidity Survey, the first psychiatric epidemiologic survey of the entire U.S. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.413Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages421–427OBJECTIVE: This study explored a multifactorial model of vulnerability to homelessness among male veterans of the Vietnam war generation. METHOD: Data from 1,460 male veterans who participated in the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study were used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.421Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages429–431Seventeen patients with schizophrenia who had been free of medication for at least 2 months entered a placebo-controlled, random-order crossover trial of 5 mg of trihexyphenidyl twice daily for 4 weeks. Ten patients completed trials of both drug and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.429Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages432–433The authors analyzed the contingent negative variations of 20 medicated patients with schizophrenia diagnosed according to DSM-III-R and 20 age- and sex-matched normal comparison subjects. For the patients with schizophrenia, there were significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.432Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages434–435The authors examined interactions among risk factors for suicide, a strategy not typically followed in suicide research. Their results suggest an explanation for gender differences in suicide rates and qualifications in the relationship between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.434Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages436–438There are no firm epidemiologic data concerning psychiatric disorders associated with homicide recidivism. The authors studied all homicide recidivists who were incarcerated in Finnish prisons or high-security hospitals and had committed their last ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.436Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages439–440Of 300 patients admitted to an alcohol rehabilitation unit, serological testing of discarded admission blood samples revealed that 31 (10.3%) had HIV infection. Chart records indicated that four patients were known to be HIV infected on admission, and HIV ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.439Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages441–442In this study, long-term outcome for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder treated with serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications was examined. The records of 85 patients who had first been evaluated at least 1 year previously (the mean follow-up ...
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Page462In lines 26-29 of the fourth paragraph of the book review by William Edwin Fann, M.D., of Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone (December 1993 issue, pp. 1891-1892), the reviewer's original ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.462Publication date: 01 March 1994
Pages462-a–462The letter "Paradoxical Hypertension Associated With Clozapine" (January 1994 issue, p. 148) was authored by Sanjay Gupta, M.D., and R. Rajaprabhakaran, M.D.
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