American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 153
- Number 12
- December 1996
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Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1516–1523OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to describe the psychological processes that are affected by geographic displacement. METHOD: The literature from the fields of geography, psychology, anthropology, and psychiatry was reviewed to develop a "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1516Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1524–1529OBJECTIVE: Uncontrolled buying, defined by the presence of repetitive impulsive and excessive buying that leads to personal and familial distress, is a psychiatric disorder that has only recently been recognized. This review focuses on the prevalence, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1524Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1530–1533OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1*04 gene in schizophrenic patients because it is positively associated with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that exhibits a strong negative association with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1530Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1534–1540OBJECTIVE: This study was an attempt to replicate evidence for a vulnerability locus for schizophrenia and associated disorders in the 8p22-21 region reported by Pulver and colleagues. METHOD: The linkage sample of the Irish Study of High-Density ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1534Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1541–1547OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic assessment of psychiatric illness in patients diagnosed with velo- cardio-facial syndrome, a genetic syndrome that involves over 40 somatic anomalies, learning disabilities, and behavioral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1541Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1548–1553OBJECTIVE: A cortical gray matter deficit has been found in cross- sectional studies of patients with chronic schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to examine whether this deficit is present early in the course of illness. METHOD: The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1548Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1554–1563OBJECTIVE: Several single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) studies of patients with schizophrenia have found evidence of reductions of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) concentrations in the temporal lobes. Multislice proton magnetic resonance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1554Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1564–1570OBJECTIVE: Schizophrenic patients have repeatedly demonstrated the inability to rapidly process information when tasks are timed or the processing load is relatively high. Schizophrenic patients show consistent deficits in the visual backward masking ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1564Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1571–1578OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were 1) to pursue the question of clozapine's striatal D2 occupancy in relation to its clinical effectiveness; 2) to investigate the relation between schizophrenic symptoms, clozapine blood levels, and estimated D2 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1571Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1579–1584OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine the relationships between serum clozapine levels and therapeutic response. METHOD: Fifty-six inpatients who met the DSM-III-R criteria for chronic schizophrenia and who had not responded to extended treatment with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1579Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1585–1592OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the effectiveness of behaviorally oriented social skills training and supportive group therapy for improving the social adjustment of schizophrenic patients living in the community and for protecting them against psychotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1585Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1593–1597OBJECTIVE: The authors developed a simplified method of rating the severity of personality disorder. METHOD: The new rating method is based on four levels of severity: no personality disorder, personality difficulty, simple personality disorder, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1593Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1598–1606OBJECTIVE: The criteria for borderline personality disorder seem to select patients with very high rates of Briquet's syndrome (hysteria), somatization disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse disorders. This study was undertaken to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1598Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1607–1612OBJECTIVE: This study prospectively investigated the relation between pretransplant assessment of psychiatric diagnosis, coping skills, and social support and outcome measures of survival and health care utilization. METHOD: Ninety-four heart transplant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1607Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1613–1619OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to assess the effects of facility ownership on the characteristics of psychiatric inpatients treated in public, private nonprofit, or proprietary general hospitals. METHOD: Data from the 1993 National Hospital Discharge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1613Article
Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1625–1627OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the efficacy of fluoxetine augmentation of clozapine treatment response in schizophrenic outpatients who, despite adequate treatment with clozapine, continued to exhibit persistent positive or negative symptoms. METHOD: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1625Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1628–1630OBJECTIVE: The effects of D-cycloserine added to clozapine were assessed and compared with previous results for D-cycloserine plus conventional neuroleptics. METHOD: Ten schizophrenic outpatients receiving clozapine entered consecutive 2-week trials of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1628Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1631–1633OBJECTIVE: In this study the authors evaluated the efficacy and the tolerability of sertraline and paroxetine in the treatment of delusional depression. METHOD: Under double-blind conditions, 46 hospitalized patients who met the DSM-III-R criteria for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1631Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1634–1636OBJECTIVE: Previous research has consistently implicated genetic factors in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. It has been hypothesized that an abnormality in glutamatergic function is of etiologic importance in schizophrenia, and therefore the glutamate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.12.1634Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1637–1639OBJECTIVE: The authors tested whether early prenatal exposure to famine was associated with schizophrenia spectrum personality disorder in addition to being associated with schizophrenia per se as shown in a previous study. METHOD: The risk of schizoid ...
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