American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 154
- Number 7
- July 1997
Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages895–903OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which instruments for assessing axis II diverge from clinical diagnostic processes. METHOD: Subjects in the first study were 52 clinicians with experience in assessment and treatment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.895Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages904–910OBJECTIVE: Some prolonged and turbulent grief reactions include symptoms that differ from the DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder. The authors investigated a new diagnosis that would include these symptoms. METHOD: They developed observer-based ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.904Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages911–917OBJECTIVE: Obsessive-compulsive disorder encompasses a broad range of symptoms that represent multiple psychological domains, including perception, cognition, emotion, social relatedness, and diverse motor behaviors. The purpose of these analyses was to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.911Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages918–925OBJECTIVE: Positron emission tomography was used to investigate the neural substrates of normal human emotional and their dependence on the types of emotional stimulus. METHOD: Twelve healthy female subjects underwent 12 measurements of regional brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.918Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages926–933OBJECTIVE: Happiness, sadness, and disgust are three emotions that differ in their valence (positive or negative) and associated action tendencies (approach or withdrawal). This study was designed to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.926Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages934–940OBJECTIVE: Most research on depression with reversed neurovegetative features (hypersomnia, hyperphagia, and weight gain) has been based on site-specific clinic-based samples. The goal of this study was to delineate the epidemiology of reversed symptoms ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.934Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages941–947OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric literature over the past 100 years suggests that Jews are at higher risk for affective disorders than numbers of other religious groups. To examine these claims, the authors analyzed data from the National Institute of Mental Health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.941Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages948–957OBJECTIVE: Depressive episodes among alcohol-dependent men and women are heterogeneous in causation and clinical course. This study tested three hypotheses regarding the rates and clinical characteristics of two potential subtypes of these affective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.948Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages958–962OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to identify which elderly patients with remitted recurrent major depression remain well with maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy after discontinuation of active antidepressant medication (nortriptyline). METHOD: The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.958Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages963–969OBJECTIVE: Prior studies examining the relationship between fluoxetine plasma concentrations and response in major depression have either found no relationship between plasma concentration and response or suggested a curvilinear relationship with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.963Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages970–975OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine whether the brainstem evoked responses of geriatric depressed patients with vascular disease show greater changes in wave V latency after increased stimulation than do responses of geriatric depressed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.970Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages976–982OBJECTIVE: Higher basal concentrations of intracellular calcium Ca2+ in platelets and lymphocytes from subjects with bipolar affective disorder than in unipolar depressed and healthy subjects implicate abnormal intracellular Ca2+ signaling in bipolar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.976Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages983–988OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess empirically the intensity of reaction to alcohol in a group of Native Americans. METHOD: Forty healthy, nonalcoholic Mission Indian men between the ages of 18 and 25 years were tested before and after ingestion of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.983Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages989–995OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of somatization in different cultures by determining its frequency and correlates in primary care settings in 14 countries. METHOD: Consecutive primary care patients (N = 25,916) were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.989Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages996–1002OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to investigate factors protective of the mental health of refugees, with a particular focus on time splitting and suppression of the past. METHOD: Structured interviews covering premigration and postmigration stresses, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.996Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1010–1012OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether schizophrenia is associated with abnormalities in neuronal migration in the entorhinal cortex. METHOD: Nissl-stained sections through three cytoarchitectonic subdivisions of the entorhinal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1010Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1013–1015OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that abnormalities in the parvalbumin-containing subclass of local circuit neurons contribute to altered gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurotransmission in the prefrontal cortex of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1013Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1016–1018OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between deficits in olfactory identification and duration of illness in young and elderly patients with schizophrenia. METHOD: Olfactory identification performance of 38 patients with schizophrenia and 40 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1016Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1019–1021OBJECTIVE: The relationship between CSF neurotensin concentrations and measures of psychopathology in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder was examined before and after treatment with antipsychotic drugs. METHOD: CSF neurotensin ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1019Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1022–1024OBJECTIVE: There has been a growing trend in medicine to evaluate the impact of illness on functional abilities. Such studies typically rely on the patient's or caregiver's report. The goal of this study was to assess directly the functional capacity of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1022Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1025–1027OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to compare, in a primary care setting, the health care utilization of women who participated in a trauma research study with the health care utilization of women who did not. METHOD: Health care utilization in the 12 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1025Publication date: 01 July 1997
Pages1028–1030OBJECTIVE: Antenatal depression, a substantial risk factor for postpartum depression, occurs in 10% of pregnant women, but no clinical treatment trials of antenatal depression exist. In an effort to establish treatment guidelines for depression during ...
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