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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 176
  • Number 3
  • March 2019

Editor’s Note

Treatment in Psychiatry

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 01 March 2019

Pages179–185

The transition from childhood to adulthood represents the developmental time frame in which the majority of psychiatric disorders emerge. Recent efforts to identify risk factors mediating the susceptibility to psychopathology have led to a heightened ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010091

Articles

Publication date: 04 January 2019

Pages186–195

Objective: Self-harm is associated with violent offending. However, little is known about young people who engage in “dual-harm” behavior. The authors investigated antecedents, clinical features, and life characteristics distinguishing dual-harming ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18060740

Publication date: 18 January 2019

Pages196–207

Objective: The authors created normative growth charts of amygdala functional connectivity in typically developing youths, assessed age-associated deviations of these trajectories in youths with psychosis spectrum disorders, and explored how these ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18040443

Publication date: 18 January 2019

Pages208–216

Objective: Anxiety disorders are common, can result in lifelong suffering, and frequently begin before adolescence. Evidence from adults suggests that altered prefrontal-limbic connectivity is a pathophysiological feature of anxiety disorders. More ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18040425

Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette’s Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies

Publication date: 01 March 2019

Pages217–227

Objective: Tourette’s syndrome is polygenic and highly heritable. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) approaches are useful for interrogating the genetic architecture and determinants of Tourette’s syndrome and other tic disorders. The authors conducted a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18070857

Publication date: 01 March 2019

Pages239–248

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether, controlling for genetic effects, drug abuse was transmitted within families as predicted by a contagion model. Methods: The authors examined 65,006 parent-offspring, sibling, and cousin pairs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18060637

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