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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 168
  • Number 11
  • November 2011

In This Issue

Perspectives

Editorial

Perspectives

Commentary

Perspectives

Introspection

Perspectives

Clinical Case Conference

Perspectives

Images in Psychiatry

Perspectives

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1154–1163

This meta-analysis of brain imaging studies confirmed that gray matter volume deficits are less abnormal for patients taking stimulants and for adults with the disorder. The latter finding suggests that development may “catch up” as the patient ages.

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11020281

New Research

Articles

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1171–1178

This article describes a medical care management intervention for individuals with serious mental illness seeking treatment at a CMHC that showed positive outcomes complemented by decreased costs. However, despite the programs' effectiveness, it was ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010071

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1179–1185

Mood disorder in over 2,200 pregnancies of over 1,100 women was examined to determine the risk for an episode. Among these women, 22.7% of those with bipolar disorder experienced an episode during pregnancy and 51.5% during the postpartum period. In ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010148

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1186–1194

Diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in the first episode of psychosis had remarkable stability over a decade in a study of over 450 patients. Nearly 90% of patients initially diagnosed with schizophrenia and 80% of those diagnosed with bipolar ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010048

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1195–1201

Real-world functional outcomes in people with schizophrenia, rated with an array of preselected rating scales and using information from the patient and an informant and condensed into a judgment rating by the examiner, were globally related to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10121723

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1202–1209

Relative to their respective age-matched healthy comparison groups, both adolescents and adults with social phobia showed a significantly increased response to emotional, but not neutral, facial expressions in the amygdala and the rostral anterior ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10121740

Publication date: 01 November 2011

Pages1210–1220

A self-regulatory control fMRI paradigm was employed to study adolescent girls with a short duration of bulimia nervosa compared with healthy comparison subjects. Adolescents with and without bulimia nervosa performed similarly on the behavioral study ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010094

Communications and Updates

Letters to the Editor

Correction

Communications and Updates

Book Forum

Communications and Updates

Books Received

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