American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 164
- Number 3
- March 2007
In This Issue
Editorial
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages393–399Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of assertive community treatment in the rehabilitation of homeless persons with severe mental illness using a meta-analysis. Method: A structured ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.393Introspections
Treatment of Psychiatry
Clinical Case Conference
Images in Psychiatry
Article
Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages415–427Objective: The relative effectiveness of newly started antipsychotic drugs for individuals with schizophrenia may depend on multiple factors, including each patient’s previous treatment response and the reason for a new medication trial. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.415Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages428–436Objective: This study examined the relative effects of the second-generation antipsychotic drugs and an older representative agent on psychosocial functioning in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Method: Consenting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.428Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages437–441Objective: To address cognitive impairments that limit the effectiveness of supported employment services for patients with schizophrenia, a cognitive training program, the Thinking Skills for Work Program, was developed and integrated into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.437Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages442–449Objective: Schizophrenia patients have problems directing attention. Sustained attention requires ensuring that brain resources are focused on a selected target (top-down task) while ignoring irrelevant distractors (bottom-up interference). ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.442Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages450–457Objective: The “default mode” has been defined as a baseline condition of brain function and is of interest because its component brain regions are believed to be abnormal in schizophrenia. It was hypothesized that the default mode network ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.450Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages458–466Objective: Synchronization of neural activity preceding self-generated actions may reflect the operation of the forward model, which acts to dampen sensations resulting from those actions. If this is true, pre-action synchrony should be related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.458Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages467–473Objective: Cognitive models propose that the symptoms and psychological impairments associated with schizophrenia arise as a consequence of impaired communication between brain regions, especially the prefrontal cortex and the temporal and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.467Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages474–482Objective: Individuals with schizophrenia show severe deficits in their ability to decode emotions based upon vocal inflection (affective prosody). This study examined neural substrates of prosodic dysfunction in schizophrenia with voxelwise ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.474Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages483–492Objective: High-density EEG during sleep represents a powerful new tool to reveal potential abnormalities in rhythm-generating mechanisms while avoiding confounding factors associated with waking activities. As a first step in this direction, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.483Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages493–499Objective: Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who have compulsive hoarding behavior are clinically different from other OCD-affected individuals. The objective of this study was to determine whether there are chromosomal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.493Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages500–508Objective: Shame is considered to be a central emotion in borderline personality disorder and to be related to self-injurious behavior, chronic suicidality, and anger-hostility. However, its level and impact on people with borderline ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.500Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages509–515Objective: The authors sought to assess whether neurocognitive deficits in people with the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms of reexperiencing and arousal are a consequence of these symptoms or represent a preexisting vulnerability ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.509Brief Report
Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages516–519Objective: Findings on spatial memory in depression have been inconsistent. A navigation task based on virtual reality may provide a more sensitive and consistent measure of the hippocampal-related spatial memory deficits associated with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.516Publication date: 01 March 2007
Pages519–523Objective: Ethanol blocks N -methyl- d -aspartic acid (NMDA) glutamate receptors. Increased NMDA receptor function may contribute to motivational disturbances that contribute to alcoholism. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.3.519Letters to the Editor
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