American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 157
- Number 9
- September 2000
Editorial
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1375–1378OBJECTIVE: The author sought to establish a common set of interactional dynamics involved in growth-facilitating interpersonal relationships. METHOD: Empirical studies of the three most common dyadic relationships associated with personality growth were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1375Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1379–1389OBJECTIVE: The author sought to provide a contemporary understanding of depression in schizophrenia and promote a treatment orientation. METHOD: Computer and library-based resources were used to review the literature on depression in schizophrenia. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1379Introspections
Clinical Case Conference
Images in Psychiatry
Article
Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1399–1405OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the predictive utility of olfactory identification deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment for follow-up diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease. METHOD: Ninety outpatients with mild cognitive impairment were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1399Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1406–1412OBJECTIVE: A community-based, longitudinal prospective study was conducted to investigate whether personality disorders during adolescence are associated with elevated risk for violent behavior during adolescence and early adulthood. METHOD: A community-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1406Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1413–1415OBJECTIVE: This study compared the HIV-risk-related behaviors and attitudes of adolescents with and without a history of sexual abuse who were in intensive psychiatric treatment. METHOD: Adolescent patients (N=208) completed measures of psychological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1413Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1416–1422OBJECTIVE: Childhood neurobehavioral deficits in offspring of schizophrenic, affectively ill, and psychiatrically normal parents were evaluated as predictors of schizophrenia-related psychoses in adulthood. METHOD: The offspring were tested with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1416Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1423–1428OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the time until onset of antidepressant response with fluoxetine treatment. METHOD: The authors evaluated 182 outpatients with major depression who had a sustained acute response to fluoxetine treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1423Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1429–1435OBJECTIVE: Use of lithium to augment antidepressant medication has been shown to be beneficial in the acute treatment of depression. The authors examined the efficacy of lithium augmentation in the continuation treatment of unipolar major depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1429Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1436–1444OBJECTIVE: Although previous studies have shown that dysthymia, or chronic depression, commonly responds to antidepressant medications (with improvements in depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning), there have been no systematic studies of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1436Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1445–1452OBJECTIVE: The authors examined gender differences in treatment response to sertraline, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), and to imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant, in chronic depression. METHOD: A total of 235 male and 400 female ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1445Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1453–1460OBJECTIVE: The study compared the neuropsychological functioning of patients with first-admission schizophrenia with that of patients with first-admission psychotic affective disorders. METHOD: Data came from the Suffolk County Mental Health Project, an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1453Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1461–1466OBJECTIVE: The study examined the primary versus secondary character of negative symptoms in a group of first-episode, neuroleptic-naive psychotic patients before and after they started neuroleptic treatment. METHOD: Forty-seven inpatients with a first ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1461Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1467–1474OBJECTIVE: Although childhood-onset schizophrenia is rare, children with brief psychotic symptoms and prominent emotional disturbances commonly present diagnostic and treatment problems. Quantitative anatomic brain magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1467Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1475–1484OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess neuroanatomic abnormalities in children and adolescents with childhood-onset schizophrenia by using whole-brain voxel-based morphometric analyses. Previous volumetric studies of brain abnormalities in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1475Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1485–1491OBJECTIVE: This study characterized the prevalence, characteristics, and impact of mental and general medical disabilities in the United States. METHOD: The 1994–1995 National Health Interview Survey of Disability was the largest disability survey ever ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1485Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1492–1498OBJECTIVE: The study examined the associations between several sociodemographic and psychosocial variables and unexplained chronic fatigue in the community before and after adjustment for psychiatric morbidity and determined the prevalence of fatigue and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1492Brief Report
Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1499–1501OBJECTIVE: A model in which cerebrovascular disease contributes to the pathogenesis of depression in later life was the basis of the authors’ hypothesis that cerebrovascular risk factors at intake are independently associated with depression at 1-year ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1499Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1501–1504OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the influence of incomplete recovery from first lifetime major depressive episodes on long-term outcome. METHOD: After their first lifetime major depressive episode, patients were divided into asymptomatic (N=70) and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1501Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1504–1506OBJECTIVE: Greater ECT stimulus efficiency allows for a lower stimulus dose and should diminish the side effects of ECT. METHOD: Four different ECT stimuli of identical charge (average mC=2.5 times age) with pulse widths of 0.5 msec and 1 msec and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1504Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1506–1508OBJECTIVE: This study tested whether a relationship exists between concentration and response following discontinuation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. METHOD: Eight patients with remitted major depression who were taking 20 mg/day of either ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1506Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1509–1511OBJECTIVE: Although sex differences occur with some psychotropic drug treatments, they are not well defined for mood-stabilizing agents, including lithium. The authors’ goal was to investigate whether there are differences between the sexes in response to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1509Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1511–1513OBJECTIVE: In a previous twin study, congenital dermatoglyphic abnormalities, such as ridge dissociations and abnormalities of palmar flexion creases, were more prevalent in twins with psychotic and related disorders than in comparison twins. This study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1511Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1514–1516OBJECTIVE: The goal of the current study was to compare premorbid behavioral and cognitive functioning between co-twins discordant for psychotic disorder and between these pairs of twins and pairs of twins with no psychotic disorders. METHOD: The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1514Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1517–1519OBJECTIVE: The authors’ goal was to investigate brain regions involved in the deficiency of working memory control processes in patients with schizophrenia. METHOD: Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with positron emission tomography in eight men ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1517Publication date: 01 September 2000
Pages1520–1522OBJECTIVE: The authors’ goal was to investigate the effect of imagining food on the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) of anorexia nervosa patients with and without habitual binge/purge behavior. METHOD: The subjects included seven female patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1520Letter to the Editor
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