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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 151
  • Number 3
  • March 1994

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages330–341

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.330

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages343–350

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.343

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages351–356

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.351

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages357–362

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.357

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages363–367

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.363

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages368–371

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.368

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages372–378

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.372

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages379–384

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.379

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages385–389

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.385

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages390–396

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.390

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages397–401

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.397

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages402–407

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.402

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages408–412

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.408

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages413–420

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.413

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages421–427

OBJECTIVE: 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.151.3.421

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages429–431

Seventeen 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.151.3.429

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages432–433

The 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.151.3.432

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages434–435

The 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.151.3.434

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages436–438

There 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.151.3.436

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages439–440

Of 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.151.3.439

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages441–442

In 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.441

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Publication date: 01 March 1994

Page462

In 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.151.3.462

Publication date: 01 March 1994

Pages462-a–462

The letter "Paradoxical Hypertension Associated With Clozapine" (January 1994 issue, p. 148) was authored by Sanjay Gupta, M.D., and R. Rajaprabhakaran, M.D.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.3.462-a

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