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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 153
  • Number 4
  • April 1996

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages457–465

OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the implications for psychotherapy of a series of court cases involving suspected childhood sexual abuse that have raised the question of when psychiatrists and other psychotherapists can be sued by third parties for their ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.457

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages466–476

OBJECTIVE: The therapeutic success of clozapine and risperidone has focused attention on the interaction between serotonin and dopamine systems as an avenue for superior therapeutics in schizophrenia. The authors review the neurobiological basis for this ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.466

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages477–482

OBJECTIVE: The authors previously found evidence for an age-related association between major depression and altered immunity. The present study was designed to assess a range of immune measures in young adults with major depression. METHOD: A homogeneous ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.477

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages483–489

OBJECTIVE: Most efforts to describe the prognostic significance of psychotic features in depression have been limited to single assessments 1 year or less after the initial evaluation. However, the various biological and treatment response differences ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.483

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages490–496

OBJECTIVE: This study compared the clinical and neuropsychological characteristics of patients with psychotic depression to those of patients with nonpsychotic depression and patients with schizophrenia. METHOD: Two hundred eighteen patients over the age ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.490

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages497–502

OBJECTIVE: This study was an investigation of judgments regarding quality of life of individuals with severe mental disorders from two different perspectives: patient self-report versus provider. METHOD: Judgments on several dimensions of quality of life ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.497

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages503–512

OBJECTIVE: Otoneurological abnormalities have been reported in panic disorder. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the prevalence of such findings in panic disorder with and without agoraphobia and to discern whether vestibular dysfunction ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.503

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages513–518

OBJECTIVE: Hyperventilation has been posed as an important symptom- producing mechanism in panic attacks. Some arguments and experimental findings, such as the possibility of inducing panic symptoms by voluntary hyperventilation in panic disorder patients,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.513

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages519–525

OBJECTIVE: The timing and clinical correlates of symptom change following antipsychotic treatment were examined in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia. METHOD: The subjects were 36 first-episode schizophrenic patients who had received minimal or no ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.519

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages526–532

OBJECTIVE: Both neuropsychological impairment and neurological soft signs have been documented in at least a subset of patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between soft signs and neuropsychological ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.526

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages533–537

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine 1) the reliability of diagnoses of schizophrenia at coronal autopsy and 2) the degree to which the use of different diagnostic instruments for schizophrenia would affect postmortem brain research. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.533

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages538–544

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the cross-sectional association between platelet membrane serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor variables in children and characteristics of their parents that place these children at risk for antisocial behavior. METHOD: As part ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.538

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages553–555

OBJECTIVE: Studies examining suicide rates for medical students have yielded conflicting data. This article addresses medical student suicide from August 1989 through May 1994. METHOD: Telephone interviews were conducted with a representative from each ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.553

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages556–558

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to study psychiatric morbidity after a natural disaster in rural India. METHOD: As members of a volunteer medical team assigned to 23 households in three villages in India affected by an earthquake, the authors examined ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.556

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages559–560

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to assess the incidence of breast cancer among chronic psychiatric patients. METHOD: They reviewed mammograms and charts of 275 female patients over the age of 40 in a state psychiatric hospital and 928 women of comparable ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.559

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages561–563

OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the personal histories, levels of psychological distress, and adaptation to American life of Vietnamese Amerasians (N=140), their non-Amerasian siblings (N=71), and a group of unrelated, like-aged Vietnamese immigrants (N=...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.561

Publication date: 01 April 1996

Pages564–566

OBJECTIVE: The effect of clozapine on striatal morphology was examined in adolescents with childhood-onset schizophrenia. METHOD: Eight adolescent patients with onset of psychosis before age 12 and eight matched comparison subjects had initial and 2-year ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.564

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Publication date: 01 April 1996

Page588

In the article "Demonstration in Vivo of Reduced Serotonin Responsivity in the Brain of Untreated Depressed Patients" by J. John Mann, M.D., et al. (February 1996 issue, pp. 174-182), on page 176 there was an error in figure 1, parts A and B. The correct ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.588

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