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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 164
  • Number 4
  • April 2007

In This Issue

Editorial

Special Article

Images in Neuroscience

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages557–565

This article summarizes six conceptual dimensions that underlie common assumptions about what counts as an adequate category of psychiatric disorder. These dimensions are 1) causalism-descriptivism, 2) essentialism-nominalism, 3) objectivism-evaluativism, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.557

Introspections

Treatment in Psychiatry

Clinical Case Conference

Images in Psychiatry

Article

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages582–590

Objective: Although adolescent-onset bipolar disorder is associated with significant morbidity, there have been few prospective outcome studies of this population. The aim of this study was to examine the 12-month outcome of bipolar adolescents ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.582

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages591–598

Objective: To date no trial has focused on the treatment of adolescents with bulimia nervosa. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of family therapy and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) guided self-care in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.591

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages599–607

Objective: Processing affective facial expressions is an important component of interpersonal relationships. However, depressed patients show impairments in this system. The present study investigated the neural correlates of implicit ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.599

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages608–616

Objective: Anomalies in error processing have been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of major depressive disorder. In particular, depressed individuals exhibit heightened sensitivity to error-related information and negative ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.608

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages617–621

Objective: Cortisol hypersecretion is one of the most reliable biological abnormalities in major depression, but it is uncertain if it represents an illness marker or a trait vulnerability to mood disorder. The present study sought to answer ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.617

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages622–629

Objective: Dopamine is an important mediator of the reinforcing effects of cocaine, and alterations in dopamine function might be involved in cocaine dependence. The goals of the present study were to characterize pre- and postsynaptic dopamine ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.622

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages630–637

OBJECTIVES: Antipsychotic medications improve psychosis but often induce a state of dysphoria in patients. Blockade of the dopamine D 2 receptors, which is thought to mediate their efficacy, has also been implicated in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.630

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages638–646

Objective: Although euthymic bipolar patients show minimal manic and depressive symptoms, they continue to show impaired emotional regulation and cognitive functioning. Few studies have directly examined the interference of emotional ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.638

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages647–655

Objective: Anatomic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have detected smaller cerebellar volumes in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than in comparison subjects. However, the regional specificity and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.647

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages656–662

Objective: Autism is a complex genetic disorder with a highly heterogeneous phenotype defined by repetitive behaviors, language deficits, and problems with reciprocal social interactions. The authors present the first genome-wide scan for a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.656

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages663–669

Objective: The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is the most common known genetic risk factor for the development of schizophrenia. The authors conducted a longitudinal evaluation of adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome to identify early risk ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.663

Brief Report

Publication date: 01 April 2007

Pages670–673

Objective: This study tested the findings of a prior study indicating a therapeutic relationship between consumption of betel nut and symptoms of schizophrenia. Method: The subjects were 65 outpatients with diagnoses of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.670

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