American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 163
- Number 11
- November 2006
In This Issue
Editorial
Images in Neuroscience
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1878–1882This review was intended to familiarize psychiatrists with the implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 on the provision of third-party employment evaluations. Understanding the provisions of the act relative to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1878Introspections
Treatment in Psychiatry
Clinical Case Conference
Images in Psychiatry
Article
Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1898–1904Objective: In 2002, 264 children and adolescents ages 5–14 died by suicide in the United States, the fifth leading cause of death. Of these suicides, 260 were in the 10–14 year age group, making suicide the third largest cause of death behind ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1898Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1905–1917Objective: This report describes the participants and compares the acute and longer-term treatment outcomes associated with each of four successive steps in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) trial. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1905Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1918–1925Objective: While neuropsychological test performance is correlated with social outcomes in patients with schizophrenia, there is little evidence to date that changes in neuropsychological performance are associated with changes in these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1918Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1926–1933Objective: Difficulty with social interactions is a characteristic of schizophrenia. The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate brain activation changes during a social cognition paradigm in patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1926Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1934–1942Objective: Despite extremely high rates of smoking among individuals with psychotic disorders and the associated financial and health costs, few studies have investigated the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions among this group. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1934Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1943–1951Objective: Studies show a high potential demand for psychiatric advance directives but low completion rates. The authors conducted a randomized study of a structured, manualized intervention to facilitate completion of psychiatric advance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1943Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1952–1959Objective: Spirituality and religiousness have been shown to be highly prevalent among patients with schizophrenia. However, clinicians are rarely aware of the importance of religion and understand little of the value or difficulties it ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1952Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1960–1968Objective: Prefrontal dysfunction is considered a fundamental characteristic of schizophrenia. Recent electrophysiological evidence points to a major instability of signal processing in prefrontal cortical microcircuits because of reduced phase-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1960Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1969–1977Objective: It has been suggested that in healthy persons higher-order cognitive processing engaged by incremental working memory load hierarchically employs more dorsal than ventral prefrontal resources in healthy individuals. Given that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1969Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1978–1985Objective: There is little information about obsessive-compulsive disorder in large representative community samples. The authors aimed to establish obsessive-compulsive disorder prevalence and its clinical typology among adults in private ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1978Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1986–1992Objective: Studies of the familiality of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have yielded inconsistent results. This study compared the familial aggregation of OCD in first-degree relatives of community subjects with never-treated OCD, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1986Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages1993–1999Objective: Theory and some preliminary evidence suggest that contingency management may be an effective treatment strategy or adjunct to psychosocial treatment for methamphetamine use disorders. An experimentally rigorous investigation on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1993Brief Report
Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages2000–2002Objective: Remission criteria for schizophrenia have been proposed, consisting of a time criterion and a symptomatic remission criterion. With longitudinal data of a representative patient group (N=317; median follow-up: 1,132 days), validity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.2000Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages2002–2004Objective: This study attempted to clarify how people with schizophrenia evaluate the potential harm associated with various research-related procedures and how these assessments relate to participation willingness. Method: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.2002Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages2005–2007Objective: The authors performed a longitudinal study of the effects on thalamic volume of switching from typical to atypical antipsychotic medications. Method: Magnetic resonance imaging scans were acquired from 10 subjects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.2005Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages2008–2010Patients with schizophrenia show deficits in several neurocognitive domains. However, the relationship between white matter integrity and performance in these domains is poorly understood. The authors conducted neurocognitive testing and diffusion tensor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.2008Publication date: 01 November 2006
Pages2011–2013Objective: Patients with schizophrenia have visual-processing deficits. This study examines visual white matter integrity as a potential mechanism for these deficits. Method: Diffusion tensor imaging was used to examine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.2011Letters to the Editor
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