The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Volume 3
- Number 2
- May 1991
Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages121–130A number of psychiatric phenomena complicate dementia. The author suggests that if we are to understand and manage these noncognitive, neuropsychiatric manifestations, they need to be studied individually rather than in a global fashion. As one example of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.121Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages131–142The authors examined correlations between anxiety and hostility levels experienced during wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) dreaming, nonrapid eye movement (NREM) mentation (as assessed by the Gottschalk- Gleser Content Analysis Scales), and cerebral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.131Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages143–149A 3-year prospective study of 31,081 admissions to an inner-city, emergency trauma hospital revealed 33 patients less than or equal to 45 years of age who had a total of 35 acute neurovascular events (infarction or hemorrhage) related to cocaine abuse (3% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.143Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages150–156The records of 34 patients who showed evidence of emotional deterioration 6 months or more following traumatic brain injury were compared with a group of patients matched for severity of initial neuropsychiatric impairment who did not show deterioration. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.150Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages157–162The relationship between obsessive-compulsive (OC) characteristics and performance on a test sensitive to frontal lobe function (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test) was examined in a sample of 100 patients between the ages of 6 and 18 years. All patients met DSM-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.157Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages163–168The neuropsychological testing of 23 elderly depressed patients was compared to that of 23 healthy controls and 20 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Depressed subjects were deficient relative to controls on most tasks, including naming and cued memory. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.163Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages169–175Multiple studies have demonstrated prefrontal dysfunction among schizophrenics. The prefrontal cortex does not function in isolation, but instead relies on extensive connections with other brain areas. Functional relationships between cortical areas were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.169Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages176–179Sleep patterns of two consecutive nights were analyzed in 26 drug-free patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), who were clinically divided into depressed (n = 8) and nondepressed (n = 18) groups. Sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) recording showed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.176Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages180–185Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients in a vegetative state were exposed to passive P300 (PP300) evoked potential tests under two conditions: two auditory tones (unimodality condition), and a flash and auditory tone (bimodality condition). A third ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.180Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages186–189A subgroup of subjects (4 of 12) with childhood soft signs and adolescent anxiety-withdrawal disorders were followed up into adulthood and assessed for soft signs and psychiatric diagnoses. These subjects continued to have soft-sign abnormalities and most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.186Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages189–196Head computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scanning were done in 23 patients with organic mental syndromes. Violent behavior was observed in 14 patients. A nonviolent group consisted of nine patients. Five cases of local lesion in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.189Publication date: 01 May 1991
Pages197–200Most diagnostic tests used in medicine, science, and technology are nonbinary: they are based on quantification of a variable that has a range of possible values. In this article, the authors describe how such tests are designed and characterized. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.2.197Article
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