American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 165
- Number 2
- February 2008
In This Issue
Editorial
Editor’s Note
Commentary
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages179–187Objective: Despite significant advances in psychosocial treatments for substance use disorders, the relative success of these approaches has not been well documented. In this meta-analysis, the authors provide effect sizes for various types of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06111851Introspection
Treatment in Psychiatry
Education in Psychiatry
Images in Neuroscience
Article
Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages203–213Objective: The lack of an accepted standard for measuring cognitive change in schizophrenia has been a major obstacle to regulatory approval of cognition-enhancing treatments. A primary mandate of the National Institute of Mental Health’s ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07010042Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages214–220Objective: The consensus cognitive battery developed by the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH’s) Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) initiative includes 10 independently developed tests ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07010043Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages221–228Objective: During the consensus meetings of the National Institute of Mental Health Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (NIMH-MATRICS) Initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took the position that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07010089Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages229–237Objective: Despite evidence for hippocampal abnormalities in elderly depression, it is unknown whether these changes are regionally specific. This study used three-dimensional mapping techniques to identify regional hippocampal abnormalities in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07030506Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages238–244Objective: White matter abnormalities may interfere with limbic cortical balance and lead to chronic depressive syndromes. The authors used diffusion tensor imaging to test the hypothesis that depressed elders who fail to achieve remission have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07050744Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages245–250Objective: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is designed primarily as a clinical tool. Yet high rates of diagnostic “crossover” among the anorexia nervosa subtypes and bulimia nervosa may reflect problems with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07060951Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages251–253Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) comprises a number of specific symptom dimensions. The authors factor analyzed data on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale symptom checklist in a large group of Japanese OCD patients to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07020340Publication date: 01 February 2008
Pages254–260Objective: Managed care financing strategies that involve financial risk to insurers can reduce budgeted health expenditures. However, resource substitution may occur and negate apparent savings in budgeted expenditures. These substitutions may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06122089