American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 151
- Number 6
- June 1994
June 1994 Sesquicentennial Supplement
Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages83–89The author cites significant changes in the conduct of the psychiatric profession between the fourth and ninth decades of this century. Determinants of the changes included the impact of World War II, the National Mental Health Act of 1946, the evolution ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.83June 1994 Issue Articles
Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages805–814OBJECTIVE: A common means of subtyping schizophrenia is to use family history. Familial schizophrenia is defined by a family history of psychotic disorders, and sporadic schizophrenia is defined by the absence of such a history. Some writers have proposed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.805Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages815–824OBJECTIVE: The author examined the validity of schizophreniform disorder as defined in DSM-III and DSM-III-R by critically reviewing the current literature. METHOD: Thirty publications that met specific inclusion criteria were identified and reviewed. To ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.815Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages825–835OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of risperidone in the treatment of schizophrenic patients and determine its optimal dose. METHOD: This double-blind study included 388 schizophrenic patients drawn from 20 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.825Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages836–841OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term outcome of patients with tardive dyskinesia. METHOD: A group of 122 neuroleptic-treated Hungarian outpatients were assessed for tardive dyskinesia on the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.836Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages842–848OBJECTIVE: The authors hypothesized that cortical gray matter volume reduction in schizophrenia is greatest in the heteromodal association cortex. This area comprises a highly integrated, reciprocally interconnected system that coordinates higher order ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.842Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages849–856OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to clarify differences in outcome and familial psychopathology among the classical subtypes of schizophrenia. METHOD: In the epidemiologically based Roscommon Family Study, personal interviews were conducted with 88% of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.849Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages857–863OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were 1) to evaluate occupational functioning 18 months after a first episode of psychosis and 2) to determine predictors of differential outcome. METHOD: Using a variety of sociodemographic, clinical, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.857Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages864–870OBJECTIVE: It has been hypothesized that individuals who cannot perceive elevations of CO2 will be less anxious than individuals with intact CO2 perception. To test this hypothesis, children with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, who have a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.864Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages871–875OBJECTIVE: Ataque de nervios ("attack of nerves") is an illness category used frequently by Hispanic individuals to describe one or more particular symptom complexes. A review of the literature on ataque suggested some overlap with panic disorder. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.871Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages876–881OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated whether cognitive behavioral treatment could facilitate discontinuation of alprazolam therapy and maintenance of drug abstinence among panic disorder patients treated with alprazolam doses sufficient to suppress ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.876Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages882–887OBJECTIVE: Using the original National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) suicide questions in a clinical setting and including a comparison group of patients with social phobia, the authors attempted to replicate the finding of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.882Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages888–894OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine factors predicting the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms after a traumatic event, the 1991 Oakland/Berkeley firestorm. The major predictive factors of interest were dissociative, anxiety, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.888Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages895–901OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken 1 1/2 years after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia to assess the frequency and severity of posttraumatic stress reactions among elderly and younger adult victims and to assess the relation of exposure, age, sex, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.895Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages902–907OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a proposed measure of peritraumatic dissociation and, as part of that effort, to determine the relationship between dissociative experiences during disturbing combat trauma ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.902Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages908–913OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the volume and predictors of outpatient mental health utilization among primary care patients in a large staff- model health maintenance organization (HMO). METHOD: Consecutive primary care patients (N = 1,810) were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.908Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages915–918A modified procedure for administering the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, focusing on a hypothesized deficit of organizational strategy in information processing, was used to administer the test to 20 schizophrenic patients. By using this procedure, 61.5% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.915Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages919–921The authors administered a gaze discrimination task to 24 patients with chronic schizophrenia and 25 subjects with no psychiatric history. Each subject was shown slides and asked, "Is the person in the slide looking directly at you?" Patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.919Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages922–924The authors compared the risk of schizophrenia in Dutch birth cohorts that were or were not exposed during the second trimester of gestation to the 1957 A2 influenza epidemic. Exposed birth cohorts did not have a higher risk of schizophrenia. These ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.922Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages925–926Eleven patients with tardive dyskinesia were treated in a double-blind study of vitamin E or placebo for 12 weeks. Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) ratings were performed before and after treatment. Patients receiving vitamin E showed a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.925Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages927–929The authors examined the relation between retrospectively reported childhood separation anxiety disorder and adult DSM-III-R anxiety disorders in 252 outpatients at an anxiety disorders research clinic. The prevalence of childhood separation anxiety ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.927Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages930–932The authors compared the distribution of somatic symptoms associated with generalized anxiety disorder in 28 patients with "pure" generalized anxiety disorder and 77 patients with generalized anxiety disorder plus comorbid current or lifetime psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.930Publication date: 01 June 1994
Pages933–936The authors reviewed the distribution of citations in 278 anxiety disorder studies published in 14 journals in 1990 and 1991. Although both psychiatrists and psychologists frequently authored studies, few journals showed evidence of a substantial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.933June 1994 Issue Articles
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Correction
Publication date: 01 June 1994
Page952In the letter "Development of Urinary Retention During Treatment With Clozapine and Meclizine" by Mary Ann Adler Cohen, M.D., et al. (April 1994 issue, pp. 619-620), the second sentence in the last paragraph should read, "Enuresis has been described with ...
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