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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 164
  • Number 10
  • October 2007

In This Issue

Editorial

Commentary

Images in Neuroscience

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1476–1488

Objective: The study of human anxiety disorders has benefited greatly from functional neuroimaging approaches. Individual studies, however, vary greatly in their findings. The authors searched for common and disorder-specific functional ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07030504

Introspections

Treatment in Psychiatry

Clinical Case Conference

Presidential Papers

Article

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1515–1520

Objective: This study estimated the prevalence of diagnosed depression and treatment among women before, during, and after pregnancies ending in live births. Method: A previously validated algorithm identified health plan ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06111893

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1521–1529

Objective: The authors sought to determine whether, in a general population sample, different categories of adverse life events were associated with different patterns of depressive symptoms. Method: A total of 4,856 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06091564

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1530–1538

Objective: Suicidal ideation is an uncommon symptom than can emerge during antidepressant treatment. The biological basis of treatment-emergent suicidal ideation is unknown. Genetic markers may shed light on the causes of treatment-emergent ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06122018

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1539–1546

Objective: This report assesses whether age at onset defines a specific subgroup of major depressive disorder in 4,041 participants who entered the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study. Method: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06101757

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1547–1556

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of olanzapine for the treatment of acute manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar disorder in adolescents. Method: A 3-week multicenter, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06111932

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1557–1560

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the evidence for the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) deficiency hypothesis in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Method: The authors examined the fasting plasma levels ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07020233

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1561–1567

Objective: Change in three types of thought disorder as measured by Rorschach responses (contaminations, confabulations, and fabulized combinations) were assessed during intensive, long-term, psychodynamically oriented inpatient treatment. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.05111853

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1568–1576

Objective: Mortality rates in the year following new antipsychotic medication starts for neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia were compared with rates after starts of other psychiatric medications. Method: The retrospective,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06101710

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1577–1584

Objective: The microtubule-associated protein tau gene ( MAPT ) contains two extended haplotypes, H1 and H2, which have been linked with sporadic tauopathies. However, there is little evidence as to how these haplotypes may ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06091456

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1585–1592

Objective: This study examined the short-term effects of first- and second-generation antipsychotic medications on social cognition and basic cognition. Method: One hundred patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06091515

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1593–1602

Objective: Patients with schizophrenia frequently present with negative symptoms and cognitive impairments for which no effective treatments are known. Agents that act at the glycine site of the N -methyl- d ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06081358

Publication date: 01 October 2007

Pages1603–1609

Objective: Cognitive models suggest that biased processing of emotional information may play a role in the genesis and maintenance of psychotic symptoms. The role of dopamine and dopamine antagonists in the processing of such information ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06081241

Letters to the Editor

Correction

Book Forum

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