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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 164
  • Number 3
  • March 2007

In This Issue

Editorial

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages393–399

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.393

Introspections

Treatment of Psychiatry

Clinical Case Conference

Images in Psychiatry

Article

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages415–427

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.415

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages437–441

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.437

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages442–449

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.442

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages450–457

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.450

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages458–466

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.458

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages467–473

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.467

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages474–482

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.474

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages483–492

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.483

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages500–508

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.500

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages509–515

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.509

Brief Report

Publication date: 01 March 2007

Pages516–519

Objective: 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.2007.164.3.516

Letters to the Editor

Corrections

Book Forum

Books Received

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