American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 151
- Number 8
- August 1994
Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1105–1113OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to review evidence that inflammatory and immune mechanisms are important in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease and to suggest new treatment strategies. METHOD: The authors review the English-language ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1105Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1114–1121OBJECTIVE: The author reviews empirical research on the psychotherapy of dysthymia. Dysthymia, a prevalent mood disorder, has been shown frequently to respond to antidepressant medication. The need for a treatment for dysthymic subjects unable or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1114Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1122–1126OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine if rates of childhood sexual, physical, psychological, and multiple abuse (i.e., abuse in more than one form) differed between women with a lifetime history of bulimia nervosa and women with no history of eating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1122Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1127–1131OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the possible relationship of negative early familial experiences and childhood sexual abuse to the later development of eating disorders. METHODS: Three anonymous questionnaires--a sexual abuse screening checklist, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1127Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1132–1136OBJECTIVE: This report presents initial findings on the reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. METHOD: Two hundred eighty-six drug- or alcohol-dependent patients were given ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1132Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1137–1139OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare grief among parents who had an adult child with schizophrenia and parents who had "lost" an adult child through death or a head injury that resulted in an organic personality disorder. METHOD: Twenty-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1137Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1140–1147OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the mechanisms responsible for increases in heart rate and blood pressure during psychological stress, which are incompletely understood. Since cardiac transplant patients have denervated hearts, they provide a unique ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1140Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1148–1152OBJECTIVE: This study examined cardiac and respiratory activity in panic disorder patients and healthy comparison subjects during sleep, when the effects of anxious cognition and expectancy set are minimized. METHOD: Heart rate, respiratory rate, end-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1148Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1153–1162OBJECTIVE: This field trial was designed to answer four questions. First, are patients presenting with anxious or depressed symptoms that are associated with significant impairment but do not meet DSM-III-R definitional thresholds for axis I anxiety or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1153Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1163–1171OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the field trials for oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder was to select valid diagnostic thresholds for these disorders and to compare the psychometric properties of DSM- IV criteria for oppositional defiant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1163Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1172–1180OBJECTIVE: Because of the role of psychological factors in insomnia, the shortcomings of hypnotic medications, and patients' greater acceptance of nonpharmacological treatments for insomnia, the authors conducted a meta-analysis to examine the efficacy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1172Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1181–1187OBJECTIVE: The authors discuss obstacles and incentives associated with successful community-based public-academic liaison activities and illustrate their conclusions by describing their public-academic liaison program, which received the American College ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1181Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1188–1193OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current study was to explore the relevancy of early pregnancy complications for the development of minor physical anomalies in monozygotic twins discordant and concordant for schizophrenia. METHOD: Pregnancy complications and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1188Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1194–1199OBJECTIVE: Neurological abnormalities found in schizophrenic subjects and their healthy relatives have raised questions concerning etiology. The aim of the present study was to investigate the genetic and environmental antecedents of neurological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1194Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1200–1208OBJECTIVE: The short-term diagnostic stability of schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders was examined in first-admission patients, with attention to the principal reasons for diagnostic change. METHOD: Hospitalized first-admission patients (N = 278) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1200Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1209–1215OBJECTIVE: Eye movement dysfunction in relation to a smooth pursuit task has been documented in schizophrenic patients and in patients with the related personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder. To investigate which quantitative measures are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1209Article
Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1217–1219This longitudinal survey study of 557 college women used the new Eating Pathology Scale to classify respondents as nondieters, casual dieters, intensive dieters, dieters at risk, and bulimic. Shifts in the severity of dieting behavior over a 6-month ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1217Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1220–1222The primary aim of this study was to determine if pretreatment with a single dose of alprazolam reduces anxiety and panic provoked by the inhalation of 35% carbon dioxide (CO2) in patients with panic disorder. Ten panic disorder patients participated in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1220Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1223–1225This study compared 50 patients presenting to an otolaryngology clinic with a complaint of dizziness and 50 patients presenting with hearing loss on questionnaire measures of panic, phobic avoidance, generalized anxiety, and depression. Clinical and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1223Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1226–1228Using spectral analysis of the continuous time series signal before and during lactate and placebo infusions, the authors studied heart rate variability in six patients with panic disorder and nine normal comparison subjects. The decrease in high-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1226Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1229–1230The authors found that the different hallucinated "voices" of four schizophrenic subjects reported over 1-3 weeks expressed semantic content that was at least as persistent as clauses sampled from single 5-7-minute conversational discourses of four ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1229Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1231–1233The authors report preliminary findings from an ongoing prospective study of neuroleptic-naive patients with first-break schizophrenia. They evaluated 17 of these patients and 15 normal subjects with a structured neurological examination before the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.8.1231Publication date: 01 August 1994
Pages1234–1236Phencyclidine induces a psychotomimetic state by blocking neurotransmission at N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled fashion, 14 medicated patients with chronic schizophrenia were treated with glycine, a ...
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