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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 153
  • Number 9
  • September 1996

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Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1132–1137

OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose of this article is to review critically the literature about use of antidepressants during lactation. Strategies for the clinical management of depressed breast-feeding mothers are also suggested. METHOD: The authors ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1132

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1138–1142

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the role of maternal smoking during pregnancy in the etiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHOD: Subjects were 6-17-year-old boys with DSM-III-R ADHD (N = 140) and normal comparison subjects (N = ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1138

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1143–1146

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to assess whether the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is retained from childhood into adulthood. METHOD: A search of the literature yielded nine prospective studies in which cohorts of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1143

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1147–1153

OBJECTIVE: Despite the increasing awareness of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, there are a limited number of controlled pharmacologic studies of this disorder; most of the trials have focused on the psychostimulants. Because the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1147

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1154–1157

OBJECTIVE: Backward masking is a cognitive task that involves the earliest phases of visual information processing. Disrupted task performance caused by a visual mask has been found repeatedly in schizophrenic patients; however, the specificity to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1154

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1158–1165

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to test the hypothesis that abnormal smooth pursuit eye movements in schizophrenic patients are associated with the deficit syndrome. METHOD: The eye movements of 24 normal comparison subjects, 32 patients with nondeficit ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1158

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1166–1172

OBJECTIVE: This co-twin study investigated monozygotic twins who were discordant for schizophrenia for evidence of prenatal growth differences between the affected and well co-twins. METHOD: Four dermatoglyphic markers of prenatal growth were obtained by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1166

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1173–1177

OBJECTIVE: Anticipation, recently found in several neuropsychiatric disorders, is an inheritance pattern within a pedigree in which disease severity increases or age at onset decreases in successive generations. Demonstration of genetic anticipation in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1173

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1178–1184

OBJECTIVE: The view of schizophrenic men as having poorer premorbid development, earlier age at onset, and worse outcome than schizophrenic women predicts greater neuropsychological impairment in the former than the latter. The authors examined in detail ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1178

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1185–1188

OBJECTIVE: Suicidal behavior is prevalent in individuals with schizophrenia. Although a relationship between greater awareness of illness and suicidal behavior has been posited, the question has not been systematically studied. The purpose of this study ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1185

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1189–1194

OBJECTIVE: The authors studied methadone maintenance patients to determine the degree of their impairment in object relations and reality testing and the relationship of such impairment to comorbid axis I and axis II disorders. It was expected that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1189

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1195–1201

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of a new semistructured diagnostic interview, the Psychiatric Research Interview for Substance and Mental Disorders (PRISM), for substance- abusing patients. The reliability of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1195

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Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1209–1211

OBJECTIVE: The role of monoamine oxidase (MAO) in alcoholism was assessed by genetic association studies separately in five ethnic groups in Taiwan. METHOD: Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) and dinucleotide repeat polymorphisms (DNRP) were ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1209

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1212–1215

OBJECTIVE: The authors rated periventricular and subcortical signal hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in elderly patients with depression and in normal subjects with similar demographic features to examine whether such changes ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1212

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1216–1218

OBJECTIVE: This study tested the hypothesis that cocaine depletes dopamine levels in the brain. METHOD: Levels of dopamine, serotonin, and their metabolites in the frontal cortex and striatum of nine cocaine users and nine matched control subjects who had ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1216

Publication date: 01 September 1996

Pages1219–1221

OBJECTIVE: Earlier studies reported that inositol, a simple polyol second messenger precursor, was effective in controlled trials for patients with depression and panic. In this study its effectiveness in obsessive-compulsive disorder was investigated. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.9.1219

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