The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Volume 3
- Number 1
- February 1991
Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages6–9Five patients who developed an atypical schizophreniform psychosis following right hemisphere stroke are described and compared to five patients matched for lesion size and location who did not develop any psychopathology after stroke. The patients who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.6Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages10–17Fifty patients with mild-to-moderate tardive dyskinesia (TD), who were devoid of other clinically apparent movement abnormalities, and 70 neurologically normal controls were assessed with a battery of instruments developed to measure and analyze the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.10Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages18–22Bipolar disorder has been reported to occur frequently in a number of subcortical diseases. This suggests that subcortical structures may be involved in the etiology of bipolar disorder in some patients. With the advent of brain magnetic resonance imaging ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.18Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages23–27The hospital charts of 17 patients with post-stroke depression who were treated with either dextroamphetamine or methylphenidate during a 5- year period at the Massachusetts General Hospital were examined. Eighty- two percent of the patients showed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.23Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages28–32Cognitive impairment of mild-to-moderate severity is known to occur among a large proportion of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Depressive affective disturbances are also known to occur commonly among these patients. In order to determine the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.28Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages33–40Fourteen patients who developed a psychotic depression after age 45 were compared with 72 non-psychiatrically ill elderly control subjects using neuroimaging and neuropsychological (NP) tests. Despite the fact that the patients were not studied if they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.33Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages41–50The authors reviewed the studies of the neuroendocrine secretion of growth hormone, prolactin, and cortisol as they relate to attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies to date have focused on the hormonal responses to the stimulants (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.41Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages51–57Cerebral magnetic resonance images (MRI) were compared between two groups, each of 25 patients, one with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and the other with multi-infarct dementia (MID). MRI proved to be clinically useful for differentiating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.51Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages58–63To explore the possible therapeutic use of electric convulsive treatment in Parkinson's disease (PD), the authors examined the biochemical effects of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on dopaminergic systems in a rodent model of PD, induced with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.58Predicting severity of depression in the elderly at six-month follow- up: a neuropsychological study
Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages64–66The authors conducted psychopathological and neuropsychological assessments on a pilot sample of 15 nondemented elderly depressed patients at the outset of inpatient treatment and again after 6 months. Pretreatment performance on a test of confrontation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.64Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages66–72Rett syndrome (RS) is a progressive neurological disorder of females, characterized by the early onset of autistic behavior, ataxia, and "handwringing" movements. The present magnetic resonance imaging study was undertaken with the purpose of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.66Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages73–75The authors present two patients with Alzheimer's disease who each received a single intravenous dose of physostigmine. Subjective complaints and mood changes were disproportional with objectively verified physiological side effects. Such observations may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.73Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages75–77Two young women with no risk factors for cerebrovascular disease developed hyperpyrexia, rigidity, and autonomic features while taking neuroleptic agents. The first presented with increasing rigidity, profuse diaphoresis and dehydration, and a right ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.75Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages78–80The relationship between memory function and depression was examined in 23 patients who met DSM-III criteria for major depression. All patients were unmedicated at the time of examination, which included the Wechsler Memory Scale, Minnesota Multiphasic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.78Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages80–83A patient with post-stroke depression following infarction of the left basal ganglia is described. The patient's depression remitted during a 6-week double-blind treatment trial while receiving placebo medication. Cortical S2-receptor binding that was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.80Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages84–88Although the performance of medical diagnostic tests is usually described in terms of their sensitivity and specificity, these accuracy indices by themselves are of little help to clinicians who need to make decisions about patient care. Estimating the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.84Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages94–98The current diagnostic system in psychiatry is symptom-based, as described in detail in DSM-III-R. In other branches of medicine the logic of diagnosis is based on knowledge of the normal function of the organ system affected by disease, and direct ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.1.94Article
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