American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 163
- Number 8
- August 2006
In This Issue
Editorial
Images in Neuroscience
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1323–1334Objective: The need to evaluate decisional capacity among patients in treatment settings as well as subjects in clinical research settings has increasingly gained attention. Decisional capacity is generally conceptualized to include not only an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1323Introspections
Treatment in Psychiatry
Clinical Case Conference
Images in Psychiatry
Article
Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1349–1354Objective: The authors hypothesized that in the majority of HIV-positive patients presenting with mania, the mania is secondary to HIV infection and that its presentation and correlates differ from those of HIV-negative patients with primary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1349Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1355–1361Objective: The authors explored the effects of an escalation of terrorism on the help-seeking behavior of the general population in Jerusalem, a city that offers an adequate supply of medical and psychiatric services. Method: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1355Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1362–1370Objective: Although several epidemiological studies of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders have been conducted in Latin America, few of them were national studies that could be used to develop region-wide estimates. Data are presented on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1362Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1371–1378Objective: This study described the rate and adequacy of mental health service use among participants in the Mexico National Comorbidity Survey and the correlates of any 12-month treatment and of adequate treatment. Method: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1371Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1379–1387Objective: The authors compared the incremental cost-effectiveness of a stepped-care, multicomponent program with usual care for the treatment of depressed women in primary care in Santiago, Chile. Method: A cost-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1379Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1388–1391Objective: In order to determine whether pathological dissociation occurs in China, the authors conducted a survey among psychiatric inpatients, outpatients, and the general population in Shanghai, China. There is virtually no popular or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1388Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1392–1396Objective: Persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse are frequently perceived by the public to be dangerous. This has resulted in an increase in state legislation restricting their ability to purchase, possess, register, obtain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1392Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1397–1403Objective: This study aimed to determine the population impact of patients with severe mental illness on violent crime. Method: Sweden possesses high-quality national registers for all hospital admissions and criminal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1397Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1404–1411Objective: This article explores the link between violence and the practice of legally mandating treatment in the community or leveraging benefits from the social welfare system, such as subsidized housing and disability income support, to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1404Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1412–1418Objective: Mental illness is consistently underrecognized in general health care, which may lead to underestimation of its effects on awards for social security payments. The authors investigated empirically the contribution of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1412Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1419–1425Objective: Despite well-established links between poverty and poor mental illness outcome as well as recent reports exploring racial and ethnic health disparities, little is known about the outcomes of evidence-based psychiatric treatment for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1419Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1426–1432Objective: Decreases in prefrontal electroencephalogram (EEG) cordance that are detectable as early as 48 hours after the start of medication have been related to clinical outcome in treatment trials for major depressive disorder. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1426Brief Report
Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1433–1435Objective: The authors examined two cohorts of female inpatients with anorexia nervosa a decade apart to determine whether there had been any changes in terms of survival. Method: The Swedish National Registers, which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1433Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1435–1437Objective: This report explored early postpartum mood changes and their correlation with postnatal depression in African women. Method: Scores on the Maternity Blues Scale and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for 478 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1435Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1438–1440Objective: This study examined whether extrapyramidal symptoms predict incidence of tardive dyskinesia 1 year later. Method: Simple, global measures were used to rate extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1438Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1440–1443Objective: Individuals with autism spectrum disorders typically have normal visuospatial abilities but impaired executive functioning, particularly in abilities related to working memory and attention. The aim of this study was to elucidate the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1440Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1443–1445Objective: Promising results were obtained in an earlier pilot study of a preventive intervention based on the principles of interpersonal psychotherapy to reduce the risk of postpartum major depressive disorder. In this study, the authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.8.1443Publication date: 01 August 2006
Pages1446–1448Objective: Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) exerts a prominent effect on central adrenergic stress responses in times of high stress and has been associated with acute posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The authors examined the association ...
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