The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Windows to the Brain

Applications of Functional Imaging to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages157–160https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.157

Special Article

The Phenomenology of Personality Change Due to Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages161–170

The authors aimed to contribute a clinically rich description of personality change due to traumatic brain injury (PC) in children. The sample consisted of consecutively injured children. Ninety-four subjects ages 5 to 14 years were assessed at the time ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.161

The Clinical Role of Computerized EEG in the Evaluation and Treatment of Learning and Attention Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages171–186

Quantitative EEG (QEEG) can play an important role in the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with attention deficit and learning disorders. Children with learning disorders are a heterogeneous population with QEEG abnormality in 25% to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.171

Prevalence, Clinical Manifestations, Etiology, and Treatment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages187–196

To determine the extent to which depression complicates Parkinson's disease (PD), the authors analyzed the literature on depression in PD in order to report on its prevalence, clinical manifestations, and treatment. By means of MEDLINE literature searches,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.187

Regular Article

EEG Monitoring in Depressed Patients Undergoing Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages197–205

To date, 33 subjects diagnosed with major depressive disorder have undergone transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the authors' clinic. Five of these patients showed minimal electroencephalogram (EEG) variants at baseline. The authors describe the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.197

Prefrontal Cortex Modulation of Mood and Emotionally Induced Facial Expressions

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages206–212

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can serve as a tool to experimentally test hypotheses of prefrontal cortex (PFC) modulation of emotions. The present study used rTMS to test whether self-rated mood and emotionally induced facial ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.206

Reduced Hippocampal Volume in Association With P50 Nonsuppression Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages213–221

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may produce persistently impaired auditory gating. This cholinergic-dependent, hippocampally mediated preattentive cognitive function that facilitates filtering of auditory stimuli may be indexed by the P50 evoked waveform to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.213

In Vivo Evidence for Differential Association of Striatal Dopamine and Midbrain Serotonin Systems With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages222–228

Parkinson's disease affects various neurotransmitter systems. Using SPECT, the authors measured [¹²³I]β-CIT binding ratios of the caudate, putamen, medial thalamus, and dorsal midbrain over cerebellum in 16 patients with Parkinson's disease, and examined ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.222

Validation of the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages229–242

The DRS-R-98, a 16-item clinician-rated scale with 13 severity items and 3 diagnostic items, was validated against the Cognitive Test for Delirium (CTD), Clinical Global Impression scale (CGI), and Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) among five diagnostic groups (...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.229

Presurgical Postictal and Acute Interictal Psychoses Are Differentially Associated With Postoperative Mood and Psychotic Disorders

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages243–247

The authors studied 52 patients who had undergone surgery because of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Investigation of postoperative psychiatric illnesses focused on psychotic disorder (293.81 and 293.82) and mood disorder (293.83) due to a general ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.243

Methylphenidate Improves HIV-1–Associated Cognitive Slowing

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages248–254

Sixteen HIV-1 seropositive individuals participated in a single-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover-design study of the effectiveness of 30 mg/ day of methylphenidate (MPH) in the treatment of HIV-associated cognitive slowing. Regression analyses ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.248

Clinical and Research Reports

Specific Frontal Lobe Subregions Correlated With Unawareness of Illness in Schizophrenia

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages255–257

The authors examined the relationship between unawareness of illness and eight frontal lobe subregions in 15 patients with schizophrenia. Significant inverse correlations were seen between unawareness and bilateral middle frontal gyrus volume and between ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.255

Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy (DRPLA) Presenting With Psychosis

Publication date: 01 May 2001

Pages258–260

The authors report on four DRPLA patients who manifested delusions. All patients demonstrated autosomal dominant DRPLA confirmed by standard gene analysis. Patients with DRPLA can exhibit a variety of psychiatric symptoms in addition to extrapyramidal and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.13.2.258