The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Volume 8
- Number 1
- February 1996
Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages1–9Psychotic 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.8.1.1Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages10–19Frontotemporal 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.8.1.10Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages20–25The 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.8.1.20Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages26–32The 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.8.1.26Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages33–40This 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.8.1.33Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages41–46Apathy 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.8.1.41Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages47–53Analyses 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.8.1.47Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages54–59Over 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.8.1.54Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages60–66Impaired 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.8.1.60Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages67–73The 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.8.1.67Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages74–81Eighteen 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.8.1.74Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages82–85Specificity 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.8.1.82Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages85–87This 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.8.1.85Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages88–92Onset 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.8.1.88Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages92–96Patients 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.8.1.92Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages96–99Psychiatrists 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.8.1.96Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages99–103This 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.8.1.99Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages104–109Dr. 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 ...
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Page117In 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., ...
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