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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 174
  • Number 11
  • November 2017

Editorials

Treatment in Psychiatry

Perspectives in Global Mental Health

Articles

Publication date: 28 July 2017

Pages1054–1063

Objective: Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is associated with a more than 20-fold increased risk for developing schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to identify additional genetic factors (i.e., “second hits”) that may contribute to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16121417

Publication date: 16 December 2016

Pages1075–1085

Objective: Social impairment is a long-recognized core feature of schizophrenia and is common in other psychotic disorders. Still, to date the long-term trajectories of social impairment in psychotic disorders have rarely been studied systematically. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15111419

Publication date: 04 August 2017

Pages1086–1093

Objective: Clinicians treating older patients with bipolar disorder with mood stabilizers need evidence from age-specific randomized controlled trials. The authors describe findings from a first such study of late-life mania. Method: The authors compared the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.15050657

Publication date: 04 August 2017

Pages1094–1101

Objective: Although several risk factors have been identified for alcohol use disorder, many individuals with these factors do not go on to develop the disorder. Identifying early phenotypic differences between vulnerable individuals and healthy control ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16101180

Publication date: 15 September 2017

Pages1102–1111

Objective: The striatum receives segregated and integrative white matter tracts from the cortex facilitating information processing in the cortico-basal ganglia network. The authors examined both types of input tracts in the striatal associative loop in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16091046

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