American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 171
- Number 1
- January 2014
In This Issue
Perspectives
Editorials
Perspectives
Commentary
Perspectives
Introspection
Perspectives
Clinical Case Conference
Perspectives
Images in Psychiatry
Perspectives
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages34–43Psychotherapies focusing on relationships and separation anxiety may be helpful for adults with anxiety disorders who experienced separation anxiety in childhood. The fear extinction model of anxiety calls for desensitization to threatening stimuli and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13060781New Research
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages44–53Adding clonazepam increases the likelihood of response in patients with social anxiety disorder who remain symptomatic after a trial with an SSRI, supporting the common clinical practice of combining a benzodiazepine with an SSRI. Among 181 nonresponders ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12101353Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages54–61Short-term SSRI use—even as little as 7 days—elevated the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in male patients. Just as with NSAIDs and aspirin, physicians should carefully monitor for this side effect.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111467Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages62–71Objective In schizophrenia, alterations in markers of cortical GABA neurotransmission are prominent in parvalbumin-containing neurons. Parvalbumin neurons selectively express KCNS3, the gene encoding the Kv9.3 potassium channel α-subunit. Kv9.3 subunits ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13040468Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages72–81A study of 79 families with one child with autism and at least one child with a language impairment revealed a possible genetic connection between autism in children and language problems in other family members. Genes in a narrow region of two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12081103Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages82–90Failure to attain emotional habituation may contribute to the rapidly and abruptly shifting moods that characterize borderline personality disorder. The absence of increased dorsal anterior cingulate activity during habituation to negative pictures was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13070852Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages91–101Objective Despite the widespread belief that neuropsychological decline is a cardinal feature of the progression from the premorbid stage to the chronic form of schizophrenia, few longitudinal studies have examined change in neuropsychological functioning ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111438Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages102–108Objective The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between therapists’ emotional responses and patients’ personality disorders and level of psychological functioning. Method A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists (N=...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13020224Publication date: 01 January 2014
Pages109–116Two years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and 5 months of CBT with follow up visits for bulimia nervosa were compared. The proportions of patients who had stopped binging and purging at 2 years were 15% for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and 44% for CBT. ...
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