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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 171
  • Number 8
  • August 2014

In This Issue

Perspectives

Editorials

Communications and Updates

Editorials

Perspectives

Commentary

Perspectives

Clinical Case Conference

Perspectives

Perspectives in Global Mental Health

Perspectives

Images in Psychiatry

Perspectives

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 August 2014

Pages829–843

Neuroimaging findings support conceptualizing bipolar disorder as a result of neural circuitry abnormalities in emotion and reward processing and regulation. Future studies should adopt these four strategies to improve the prediction of future illness ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13081008

New Research

Articles

Publication date: 01 August 2014

Pages854–863

Objective Childhood maltreatment acts as a severe stressor that produces a cascade of physiological and neurobiological changes that lead to enduring alterations in brain structure. However, structural neuroimaging findings have been inconsistent. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13101427

Publication date: 01 August 2014

Pages864–871

Unexpected death of a loved one was associated with heightened vulnerability for virtually all commonly occurring psychiatric disorders, including depression, PTSD, manic episodes, phobias, panic disorder, and substance use disorders in one of the first ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13081132

Publication date: 01 August 2014

Pages881–888

Objective Basic studies have demonstrated that optimal levels of prefrontal cortical dopamine are critical to various executive functions such as working memory, attention, inhibitory control, and risk/reward decisions, all of which are impaired in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13121581

Communications and Updates

Letters to the Editor

Communications and Updates

Books Received

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