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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 157
  • Number 12
  • December 2000

Editorial

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1915–1924

OBJECTIVE: This article reviews the assessment and management of psychiatric problems among the oldest old. METHOD: The author reviewed the English-language literature pertinent to the characteristics of people 85 years old or older and the assessment and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1915

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1925–1932

OBJECTIVE: In 1970, Guze and Robins published a meta-analysis of suicide in patients with affective illness that inferred a lifetime risk of 15%. Since then, this figure has been generalized to all depressive disorders and cited uncritically in many ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1925

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1933–1940

OBJECTIVE: The Committee on Research on Psychiatric Treatments of the American Psychiatric Association identified treatment of major depression during pregnancy as a priority area for improvement in clinical management. The goal of this article was to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1933

Introspections

Clinical Case Conference

Images in Psychiatry

Article

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1949–1954

OBJECTIVE: Knowledge of the relationship between various clinical characteristics and cognitive functioning is advancing, but little is known about the cognitive response to treatment for geriatric depression. The purpose of this study was to examine the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1949

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1955–1959

OBJECTIVE: The mutation responsible for Huntington’s disease is an elongated and unstable trinucleotide (CAG) repeat on the short arm of chromosome 4. Psychotic symptoms are more common in patients with Huntington’s disease than in the general population. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1955

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1960–1965

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of continuation ECT in depression. METHOD: The authors used retrospective chart review to identify 29 patients who received continuation ECT plus long-term antidepressant treatment after a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1960

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1966–1972

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine whether subjects with the sole diagnosis of depressive personality disorder are at higher risk for developing dysthymia and major depression than are healthy comparison subjects. METHOD: Eighty-five women with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1966

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1973–1979

OBJECTIVE: Patients with generalized anxiety disorder (N=107) who had been long-term benzodiazepine users (average duration of use=8.5 years) were enrolled in a benzodiazepine discontinuation program that assessed the effectiveness of concomitant ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1973

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1980–1987

OBJECTIVE: DSM-IV specifies that Asperger’s disorder is a type of pervasive developmental disorder without clinically significant cognitive or language delay. There are no data, however, on the outcome of children with Asperger’s disorder or on whether ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1980

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1988–1993

OBJECTIVE: The nature of the underlying brain dysfunction of childhood autism, a life-long severe developmental disorder, is not well understood. Although researchers using functional brain imaging have attempted to contribute to this debate, previous ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1988

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages1994–2001

OBJECTIVE: Cytoarchitectonic changes in the anterior cingulate cortex, hippocampus, subiculum, entorhinal cortex, amygdala, mammillary bodies, and septum were reported in a postmortem study of autism. Previously, the authors found smaller cingulate volume ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.1994

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2002–2010

OBJECTIVE: “Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar” has been proposed as a precursor to anxiety disorders. Children with behavioral inhibition are cautious, quiet, introverted, and shy in unfamiliar situations. Several lines of evidence suggest that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2002

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2011–2016

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the comorbidity of borderline personality disorder with other personality disorders in a series of consecutively admitted adolescents. For comparison, the comorbidity of borderline personality disorder with other ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2011

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2017–2021

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine whether there are changes in the cognitive factors of attributional style, hopelessness, and self-esteem when suicidal ideation fades in psychiatrically hospitalized children and adolescents. METHOD: The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2017

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2022–2027

OBJECTIVE: The authors wished to obtain information from therapists about their reactions to the suicides of patients in their care. METHOD: Therapists for 26 patients who committed suicide completed a semistructured questionnaire about their reactions, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2022

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2028–2035

OBJECTIVE: One goal of diagnostic criteria is to predict the course of clinically relevant future problems. This study evaluated the ability of the DSM-IV categories of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence to predict the onset and cessation of the 11 DSM-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2028

Brief Report

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2036–2038

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the frequency and age at onset of psychiatric disorders among children with rheumatic fever, Sydenham’s chorea, or both and a comparison group. METHOD: Twenty children with rheumatic fever, 22 with Sydenham’s chorea, and 20 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2036

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2038–2040

OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the effects of race on neuropsychological functioning in patients with schizophrenia. METHOD: A total of 160 patients with schizophrenia completed an extensive neuropsychological test battery. Scores were standardized to a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2038

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2040–2042

OBJECTIVE: Evidence suggests that patients with schizophrenia have a deficit in “theory of mind,” i.e., interpretation of the mental state of others. The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the hypothesis that patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2040

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2043–2045

OBJECTIVE: The study examined the genetic structure of deficits in reciprocal social behavior in an epidemiologic sample of male twins. METHOD: Parents of 232 pairs of 7–15-year-old male twins completed the Social Reciprocity Scale to provide data on ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2043

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2048–2050

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the clinical and familial relationships between comorbid alcoholism and attempted suicide in affectively ill relatives of probands with bipolar I disorder. METHOD: In 71 families ascertained for a genetic linkage study, 337 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2048

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2050–2051

OBJECTIVE: This study was an examination of whether a family history of suicide is associated with attempts at suicide among alcoholics. METHOD: A consecutive series of 333 alcoholics were interviewed about whether or not they had ever attempted suicide ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2050

Publication date: 01 December 2000

Pages2052–2054

OBJECTIVE: The study examined the effectiveness of amantadine in reducing cocaine withdrawal symptoms and improving treatment outcome among cocaine-dependent patients in outpatient treatment. METHOD: Sixty-one cocaine-dependent subjects participated in a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2052

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