American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136, Issue 7

July 1979

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July 1979

Time, age, and the life cycle

Pages:887–894
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.887

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Psychologists are increasingly interested in the life cycle as the unit for study and in such questions as whether adult development, like child development, is to be perceived as a succession of stages. A stage theory of adult life seems oversimplified ...

July 1979

Pseudodementia

Pages:895–900
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.895

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Pseudodementia is the syndrome in which dementia is mimicked or caricatured by functional psychiatric disorders. The author describes 10 patients with pseudodementia and compares its clinical features with those of true dementia. The syndrome occurred in ...

July 1979

"Folk" explanations of mental illness in rural laos

Pages:901–905
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.901

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To obtain "folk" explanations of specific cases of mental illness the authors interviewed 35 baa(insane) Laotian individuals and their relatives and neighbors. They obtained 54 explanations; 15 focused on supernatural causes, 15 on physical causes, 14 on ...

July 1979

The crisis group--an outcome study

Pages:906–910
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.906

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The authors describe the day-to-day functioning and outcome of an 8- session, active, crisis-oriented outpatient psychotherapy group. Symptoms of anxiety and depression improved significantly in participants of the crisis group; these changes were even ...

July 1979

Familial (genetic) subtypes of pure depressive disease

Pages:911–913
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.911

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The author reviewed data from five studies and found that depressed patients with a history of depression in a parent or child have more sibships containing depression than depressed patients without this family history. Thus, there is a clustering of ...

July 1979

Effect of chlorpromazine on human growth hormone

Pages:914–917
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.914

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The authors studied basal HGH levels and HGH response to insulin- induced hypoglycemia in 12 schizophrenic patients who had been treated with 200--450 mg/day of chlorpromazine for 6 monthsto 4 years compared with 12 schizophrenic patients who had ...

July 1979

A systematic investigation of tardive dyskinesia in inpatients

Pages:918–922
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.918

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Although many scales to measure tardive dyskinesia have been developed, none has been widely accepted. The authors used the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) to evaluate a group of 293 inpatients who had been given a primary or secondary ...

July 1979

Opposition to "coercive continuing medical education and mandatory recertification"

Pages:923–926
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.923

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A district branch survey on attitudes toward obligatory continuing medical education (CME) and mandatory recertification indicated that most respondents approved the concept of lifelong learning. However, proposed methods of implementation of CME were ...

July 1979

Clinical implications of state-dependent learning

Pages:927–931
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.927

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Researchers have found that state-dependent learning is associated with the administration of a wide variety of drugs. Recent data suggest that similar phenomena may occur secondary to endogenous changes in neuroregulatory substances. The authors point ...

July 1979

The development of an internship program in psychiatric nursing

Pages:932–936
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.932

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As medicine and nursing have become increasingly specialized, the need for additional training for the graduate nurse has become more evident. One way in which nursing educators have dealth with this problem is through the establishment of general nursing ...

July 1979

CSF copper in schizophrenia

Pages:937–939
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.937

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The authors measured copper levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of 8 schizophrenic subjects and 6 controls. The schizophrenic subjects had significantly lower CSF copper values than the controls, which is consistent with the hypothesis that there is reduced ...

July 1979

The form and content of schizophrenic hallucinations

Pages:940–943
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.940

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To evaluate changes in the hallucinatory experience, the author analyzed the form and content of the hallucinations of 10 schizophrenic patients during two phases of their illness, the acute phase and remission. In both test periods the patients ...

July 1979

Affective flattening and the criteria for schizophrenia

Pages:944–947
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.944

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The author used a scale that emphasizes objective behavioral signs to evaluate affective flattening and to rate affect in 69 patients suffering from schizophrenia (N = 30), mania (N = 19), and depression (N = 20). Raters were blind to the patient's ...

July 1979

Mental status, functioning, and stress in chronic schizophrenic patients in communicity care

Pages:948–952
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.948

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The author studied the interactions between functioning, stress, and psychological deficit, variables considered essential to the schizophrenic patient's adjustment in the community. The results indicate that comprehensive measurement of functioning and ...

July 1979

The role of APA in continuing medical education

Pages:953–954
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.953

July 1979

Diagnosis of adult psychiatric patients with childhood hyperactivity

Pages:955–958
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.955

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The authors compared 48 adult psychiatric patients (27 men and 21 women) who had been hyperactive as children with two groups of patients who had not. Both comparison groups were matched for age and sex and the second was also matched for economic status. ...

July 1979

Informed consent for neuroleptic therapy

Pages:959–962
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.959

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The author suggests that the frequency and severity of tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with neuroleptic drugs requires that informed consent be obtained from all patients receiving such treatment. The three basic conditions for obtaining informed ...

July 1979

Paradoxical lithium neurotoxicity: a report of five cases and a hypothesis about risk for neurotoxicity

Pages:963–966
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.963

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There have been many reports of probable lithium-induced organic brain syndromes occurring when serum lithium levels are within or close to the therapeutic range. The authors report on five patients who developed clinical syndromes suggestive of severe ...

July 1979

Effects of a program for evaluating child psychiatry fellows

Pages:967–969
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.967

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The authors describe their experience with the implementation of a systematic evaluation of child psychiatry fellows and adult psychiatry residents rotating through a child psychiatry program. They found that the semiannual evaluations not only defined ...

July 1979

Intestinal dilatation associated with phenothiazine therapy: a case report and literature review

Pages:970–972
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.970

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The authors describe a fatal episode of intestinal dilatation associated with chlorpromazine therapy. A total of 26 similar cases associated with phenothiazine or tricyclic antidepressant therapy, including 9 fatalities, has been reported in the ...

July 1979