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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 169
  • Number 12
  • December 2012

In This Issue

Perspectives

Editorials

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1233–1237

The Editors offer their personal selections of the articles this year they found particularly interesting and important. Also available in Spanish.

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12091250

Perspectives

Treatment in Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1238–1244

ECT is often effective for severely depressed patients who have not responded to multiple medication trials or who are at imminent risk of suicide. This issue's Treatment in Psychiatry highlights the safety and efficacy of ECT while stressing the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12050648

Perspectives

Images in Psychiatry

Perspectives

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1247–1255

Objective The author reviewed prospective longitudinal studies of the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder to inform our understanding of the nature of the association between childhood ADHD and the risk of developing bipolar disorder in adolescence ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11111725

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1256–1266

Objective The existence of comorbidity between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar I disorder has been documented in clinical and epidemiological studies, in studies of children and adults, and in diagnosed ADHD and bipolar I ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12010087

New Research

Articles

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1284–1291

Objective It has been estimated that 10%–20% of U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experienced mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), mostly secondary to blast exposure. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) may detect subtle white matter changes in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12050600

Publication date: 01 December 2012

Pages1301–1308

Objective The single-nucleotide polymorphism rs1344706, located within an intron of the ZNF804A gene, exhibits genome-wide significant association with schizophrenia. Although genotype at rs1344706 is associated with altered functional brain connectivity, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11121845

Communications and Updates

Letters to the Editor

Communications and Updates

Corrections

Communications and Updates

Book Forum

Communications and Updates

Books Received

Communications and Updates

In Appreciation

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