American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 157
- Number 12
- December 2000
Editorial
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1915–1924OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1915Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1925–1932OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1925Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1933–1940OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1933Introspections
Clinical Case Conference
Images in Psychiatry
Article
Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1949–1954OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1949Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1955–1959OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1955Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1960–1965OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1960Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1966–1972OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1966Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1973–1979OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1973Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1980–1987OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1980Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1988–1993OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1988Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages1994–2001OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.1994Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2002–2010OBJECTIVE: “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.157.12.2002Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2011–2016OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2011Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2017–2021OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2017Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2022–2027OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2022Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2028–2035OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2028Brief Report
Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2036–2038OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2036Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2038–2040OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2038Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2040–2042OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2040Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2043–2045OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2043Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2045–2047OBJECTIVE: An association between the 5-HTTLPR short variant polymorphism in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene and risk for alcohol dependence has been reported from case-control studies that are, however, prone to chance findings ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.12.2045Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2048–2050OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2048Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2050–2051OBJECTIVE: 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.157.12.2050Publication date: 01 December 2000
Pages2052–2054OBJECTIVE: 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 ...
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