The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Publication date: 01 February 1994

The authors review catatonia, especially malignant catatonia, suggest a revised nomenclature, and establish a basis for furthering our understanding and treatment of this syndrome. After a brief historical review of catatonia, they review all available ...

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Closed head injuries are common, affecting approximately 2 million people annually in the United States. The majority of these are "mild" in the sense of not being associated with prolonged unconsciousness, intracranial bleeding, skull fracture, or ...

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Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a congenital disorder characterized by hyperphagia as well as by other behavioral disturbances such as self- mutilation and temper outbursts. Some of these symptoms have been reported to respond to psychotropic medications. ...

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The Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) has been shown to be a valid instrument for identifying and grading the severity of delirium in patients admitted to a general hospital for medical or surgical treatment. However, its accuracy in identifying delirium among ...

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Smooth pursuit eye movement (SPEM) dysfunction is a putative genetic marker for schizophrenia, but it has also been described in major depression. The authors longitudinally evaluated effects of clinical state on SPEM quality in patients with depression. ...

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This study examined the relationship between subjective complaints and neuropsychological performance in 133 HIV-positive asymptomatic and 80 HIV-negative gay or bisexual men. Presence and duration of self- reported symptoms were most strongly related to ...

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Because intramuscular injections of type A botulinum toxin (btx) are effective for idiopathic spasmodic torticollis, they were administered to 3 patients who had neck movements as their only manifestation of tardive dystonia. Each improved, with a ...

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The Dementia Rating Scale, previously shown to be sensitive to dementia progression, was used to differentiate among normal control subjects, patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and those judged to be at risk for AD on the basis of subclinical memory ...

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The title of Dr. Rhawn Joseph's book was listed incorrectly in the Fall 1993 book review section. The correct title is Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology

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Several errors appeared in Tables 1 and 2 of the article "Mild Neurocogrntive Disorder: Needed Addition to the Nosology of Cognitive Impairment (Organic Mental) Disorders." This article by Rosben Gutierrez, M.D., J. Hampton Atkinson, M.D., and Igor Grant, ...