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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 154
  • Number 7
  • July 1997

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages895–903

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.895

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages904–910

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.904

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages911–917

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.911

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages918–925

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.918

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages926–933

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.926

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages934–940

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.934

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages941–947

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.941

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages948–957

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.948

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages958–962

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.958

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages963–969

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.963

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages970–975

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.970

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages976–982

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.976

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages983–988

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.983

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages989–995

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.989

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages996–1002

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.996

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1010–1012

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1010

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1013–1015

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1013

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1016–1018

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1016

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1019–1021

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1019

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1022–1024

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1022

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1025–1027

OBJECTIVE: 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.154.7.1025

Publication date: 01 July 1997

Pages1028–1030

OBJECTIVE: 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.154.7.1028

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