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The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

  • Volume 8
  • Number 1
  • February 1996

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages1–9

Psychotic symptoms such as visual hallucinations and delusions are a relatively common clinical problem in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). A dilemma arises in the treatment of psychosis in these patients because traditional antipsychotics are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.1

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages10–19

Frontotemporal dementia is a progressive dementing illness characterized clinically by personality change, disinhibition, and apathy. Neuropathologically, neuronal cell loss, astrogliosis, and microvacuolation are present in the superficial frontotemporal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.10

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages20–25

The relationship between depression and disability in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) was examined in 31 outpatients. Thirteen percent had current major depression (MD), 10% dysthymia, and 32% a lifetime history of MD. Depression was significantly ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.20

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages26–32

The authors examined the presence of specific quantified electroencephalographic (qEEG) changes in dementia patients with relatively lower frontal or parietal blood perfusion as demonstrated by SPECT. Over all brain regions, patients with relatively lower ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.26

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages33–40

This study examined whether abnormalities in event-related potentials (ERPs), reported in schizophrenia, extend to patients with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). Auditory ERPs in an oddball paradigm were obtained in 19 SPD patients, 17 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.33

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages41–46

Apathy and loss of insight as correlates of behavior in Alzheimer's disease (AD) were studied in 40 patients by using clinical scales and cerebral blood flow measurements from SPECT imaging. Apathy was significantly correlated with decreased right ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.41

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages47–53

Analyses of MRI scans of 26 asymptomatic HIV-infected individuals (HIV+) and 10 HIV-seronegative psychiatric control subjects (HIV-) revealed an incidental finding: 50% of the HIV+ subjects had discernible cleft in the septum pellucidum (cavum septi ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.47

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages54–59

Over a 6-year period, 2,783 subjects, consecutively referred from the inpatient unit of a private psychiatric hospital, were evaluated with brain MRI. Twenty-three patients (0.83%) had brain white matter hyperintensities (WMH) that were highly suggestive ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.54

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages60–66

Impaired sensory gating and increased distractibility are key information-processing deficits in schizophrenia. This study evaluated the hypothesis that distractibility is related to reduced sensory gating. Performance on vigilance and distractibility ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.60

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages67–73

The efficacy of tacrine for treatment of Alzheimer's has been demonstrated in several clinical trials but has not been assessed in cases complicated by medical and psychiatric comorbidities. Additionally, the benefit-risk ratio of tacrine is small, so it ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.67

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages74–81

Eighteen asymptomatic HIV-1-infected (HIV+) individuals were evaluated neuropsychologically before and during Interferon Alfa-n3 treatment. All 18 were evaluated twice, and 9 were evaluated three times. Analyses revealed few significant effects of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.74

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages82–85

Specificity of neuropsychological dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was assessed by comparing neuropsychological performance in 65 OCD patients, 17 social phobic patients, and 32 normal control subjects. Although both patient groups ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.82

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages85–87

This study examined the clinical effects of cognitive impairment on the course of patients who have a major psychiatric disorder. Surprisingly, a statistical split between Verbal and Performance IQ on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised is not a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.85

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages88–92

Onset of visual hallucinations in elderly individuals is a widespread problem with an elusive etiology. Many patients with this problem have visual and cognitive deficits. Intervention with optical aids has not been investigated as a means of treating ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.88

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages92–96

Patients who develop psychosis or agitated behavior secondary to neurological disorders present a therapeutic dilemma. The authors review clinical efficacy and side effect profiles of clozapine in a cohort of 16 patients with various neurobehavioral ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.92

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages96–99

Psychiatrists increasingly consult on the treatment of acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) when combativeness compromises safe critical care. The author discusses use of carbamazepine for 7 combative patients with multiple trauma including TBI. This cohort ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.96

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages99–103

This study examined recall and recognition memory in 20 nonmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and 20 matched control subjects. As hypothesized, OCD subjects showed abnormalities affecting delayed recall of nonverbal information ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.99

Publication date: 01 February 1996

Pages104–109

Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, Professor of Neurology and of Psychiatry at UCLA, is the executive director of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the president of the Behavioral Neurology Society. This timely article sites neuropsychiatry in the broad ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.104

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Publication date: 01 February 1996

Page117

In ANPA poster abstract #P1, "Sensitization of Psychosensory Features and Cognitive Deficits in Mood Disorders" (Summer 1995, p. 399), the names of Dr. Nutan Atre-Vaidya's co-investigators were inadvertently omitted. They are Michael Alan Taylor, M.D., ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.8.1.117

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