American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 153
- Number 1
- January 1996
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Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages7–10OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the impact of financial incentives on disability, symptoms, and objective findings after closed-head injury. METHOD: Meta-analysis was used to review the literature. Seventeen reports, covering 18 study groups and a total ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.7Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages11–20OBJECTIVE: To understand the relation between parenting and later psychopathology, it is important to clarify the role of genetic and environmental factors in both the elicitation and the provision of parenting behavior. METHOD: A 16-item version of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.11Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages21–26OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether negative life events affected subjects' long-term physical and mental health. METHOD: One hundred thirteen normal college men completed biennial follow-up questionnaires from age 26 until age 62. At age 62 they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.21Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages27–31OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether homosexual men have a higher mean birth order than heterosexual men primarily because they have more older brothers or because they have more older siblings of both sexes. METHOD: For the main analyses, 302 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.27Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages32–40OBJECTIVE: Visual-processing abnormalities commonly contribute to typical Alzheimer's disease symptoms, but their detailed pathophysiology remains unknown. To investigate why patients with Alzheimer's disease have greater difficulty performing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.32Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages41–49OBJECTIVE: The functional pathways through which antipsychotic drugs act in the brain to decrease psychosis remain unknown, despite our knowledge that their site of initial action is through blockade of dopamine D2 receptors. The authors sought to define ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages50–56OBJECTIVE: Interpretation of the literature concerning superior temporal gyrus volume in patients with schizophrenia is complicated by methodological variation between studies and by the difficulty of identifying gyral boundaries in serial sections. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.50Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages57–63OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine current and lifetime rates of DSM-III-R disorders in patients with pseudoseizures and to ascertain whether trauma is associated with the occurrence of pseudoseizures. METHODS: Adult pseudoseizure patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.57Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages64–68OBJECTIVE: Exaggerated startle reflex is reputed to be one of the cardinal symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The goal of this study was to assess the magnitude of the acoustic startle reflex in Gulf War veterans with PTSD. METHOD: The eye-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.64Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages69–73OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine whether hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in patients before their treatment for panic disorder can predict follow-up functional status. Although baseline HPA axis disturbances in patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages74–82OBJECTIVE: Many of the studies linking anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa to substance use disorders suffer from problems with small samples; some lack rigorous definitions of the syndromes, and it is difficult to determine whether eating problems were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.74Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages83–92OBJECTIVE: This study compared serotonergic (5-HT) and noradrenergic reactivity in recently detoxified alcoholic patients and healthy comparison subjects. METHOD: Participants were 22 male inpatients who met DSM-III-R criteria for alcohol dependence and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.83Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages93–99OBJECTIVE: This study was done to compare the effects of 6-week treatment with amitriptyline on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) regulation in elderly depressed patients and age-matched comparison subjects. METHOD: A combined dexamethasone-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.93Article
Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages104–106OBJECTIVE: Because recent data suggest that there are abnormalities of the thalamus in schizophrenia, the authors tested the effects of antipsychotic drugs on thalamic sites. METHOD: Nine rats were given acute doses of the typical neuroleptic haloperidol (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.104Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages107–109OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated the possibility that genetic variation or mutation of the dopamine D5 receptor gene might modify susceptibility to schizophrenia. METHOD: Twenty-three Icelandic and English pedigrees containing multiple cases of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.107Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages110–113OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the prevalence and correlates of panic disorder in a group of patients who were referred for pulmonary function testing. METHOD: Patients (N = 115) were screened for the presence of panic attacks and panic disorder with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.110Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages114–116OBJECTIVE: Neuropeptide Y is a pancreatic polypeptide closely associated with noradrenergic activity both in the central and peripheral nervous systems. The objective of this study was to assess plasma neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity in panic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.114Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages117–118OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of borderline personality symptoms and self-harm behavior in two distinct groups of obese subjects. METHOD: Obese women, 17 from an eating disorders program and 60 from a primary care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.1.117Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages119–121OBJECTIVE: The authors studied platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and psychological characteristics of male pathological gamblers. METHOD: Twenty-seven male pathological gamblers were compared with a group of healthy individuals who were matched by ...
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