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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 167
  • Number 4
  • April 2010

In This Issue

Editorial

Commentary

Introspection

Education in Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages381–386

Abstract Research collaborations with the pharmaceutical industry can offer valuable opportunities for academic psychiatrists to gain access to important resources. Such relationships, however, often produce significant conflicts of interest, and recent ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08121886

Images in Psychiatry

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages388–396

Abstract Dopamine D2 receptor antagonism is a unifying property of all antipsychotic drugs in clinical use. Remarkably, the effector molecules through which these medications exert their actions remain poorly characterized. Increasing attention is being ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08121873

Article

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages409–417

Objective Few follow-up studies have been conducted of girls with ADHD, and none have followed girls into adulthood. The authors sought to estimate the prevalence of psychopathology in girls with and without ADHD followed into young adulthood. Method The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09050736

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages418–426

Objective Recognition memory of faces is impaired in patients with schizophrenia, as is the neural processing of threat-related signals, but how these deficits interact to produce symptoms is unclear. The authors used an affective face recognition paradigm ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09060808

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages427–435

Objective Activation in a network of language-related regions has been reported during auditory verbal hallucinations. It remains unclear, however, how this activation is triggered. Identifying brain regions that show significant signal changes preceding ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09040456

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages436–443

Objective Despite increased exposure to cancer risk factors, several studies have demonstrated a lower incidence of cancer in schizophrenia patients than in the general population. Lower cancer rates in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09050615

Publication date: 01 April 2010

Pages444–450

Objective Diminished suppression of the P50 auditory evoked potential is a widely used sensory gating phenotype in the molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between this phenotype and neuregulin 1-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09050723

Letter to the Editor

Book Forum

Books Received

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