American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 153
- Number 9
- September 1996
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Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1132–1137OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1132Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1138–1142OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1138Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1143–1146OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1143Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1147–1153OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1147Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1154–1157OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1154Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1158–1165OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1158Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1166–1172OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1166Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1173–1177OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1173Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1178–1184OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1178Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1185–1188OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1185Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1189–1194OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1189Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1195–1201OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1195Article
Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1209–1211OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1209Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1212–1215OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1212Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1216–1218OBJECTIVE: 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.153.9.1216Publication date: 01 September 1996
Pages1219–1221OBJECTIVE: 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. ...
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