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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 167
  • Number 10
  • October 2010

In This Issue

Perspectives

Editorials

Perspectives

Commentary

Perspectives

APA Presidential Addresses

Perspectives

Treatment in Psychiatry

Perspectives

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1178–1193

The hippocampal formation is one of the most extensively studied regions of the brain, with well-described anatomy and basic physiology; moreover, aspects of human memory mediated by the hippocampus are well characterized. In schizophrenia, alterations in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09081187

New Research

Articles

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1194–1201

Objective: There is growing clinical and epidemiologic evidence that major mood disorders form a spectrum from major depressive disorder to pure mania. The authors examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of major depressive disorder with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09071011

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1202–1209

Objective: This study examined the effects of step therapy for antidepressants on prescription drug and other medical utilization and spending. Step therapy is a type of pharmaceutical benefit design that requires that patients try certain specified ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09060877

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1210–1217

Objective: The authors examined the impact of co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on women with borderline personality disorder who had attempted suicide in the preceding year. Method: Female borderline personality disorder outpatients (N=94) ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09081213

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1218–1225

Objective: Early pubertal timing in girls is associated with psychosocial problems throughout adolescence, but it is unclear whether these problems persist into young adulthood. The authors analyzed outcomes in adolescence and young adulthood in girls in a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09081190

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1226–1231

Objective: Impaired function of the central gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system, which provides the brain's major inhibitory pathways, is thought to play an important role in the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders. The effect of acute psychological ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09070994

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1232–1239

Objective: In recent years there has been a greater appreciation of the elevated prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the schizophrenia population and the liability some treatments have for their development. These vascular risk factors are in turn ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09091328

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1240–1246

Objective: Recent studies suggest a role for social factors during childhood in the later development of schizophrenia. Since social conditions in childhood are closely related to parental psychiatric illness, there is a need to disentangle how genes and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09010114

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1247–1253

Objective: Prescriptions for anxiety medications have increased substantially in recent years. Individuals with anxiety disorders are at risk of nonmedical use of these medications, but information about whether this risk is elevated among patients with a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09081132

Publication date: 01 October 2010

Pages1264–1275

Objective: Abnormal 50- and 100-msec event-related brain activity derived from paired-click procedures are well established in schizophrenia. There is little agreement on whether group differences in the ratio score, i.e., the ratio of EEG amplitude after ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09071059

Communications and Updates

Letters to the Editor

Communications and Updates

Book Forum

Communications and Updates

Corrections

Communications and Updates

Books Received

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