American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 153, Issue 4
April 1996
Article
April 1996
Neuroimaging, VII: PET and the averaging of brain images
- Page:456
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April 1996
Psychotherapists' duties to third parties: Ramona and beyond
- Pages:457–465
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.457
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OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the implications for psychotherapy of a series of court cases involving suspected childhood sexual abuse that have raised the question of when psychiatrists and other psychotherapists can be sued by third parties for their ...
April 1996
Serotonin-dopamine interaction and its relevance to schizophrenia
- Pages:466–476
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.466
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OBJECTIVE: The therapeutic success of clozapine and risperidone has focused attention on the interaction between serotonin and dopamine systems as an avenue for superior therapeutics in schizophrenia. The authors review the neurobiological basis for this ...
April 1996
Immunity in young adults with major depressive disorder
- Pages:477–482
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.477
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OBJECTIVE: The authors previously found evidence for an age-related association between major depression and altered immunity. The present study was designed to assess a range of immune measures in young adults with major depression. METHOD: A homogeneous ...
April 1996
Importance of psychotic features to long-term course in major depressive disorder
- Pages:483–489
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.483
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OBJECTIVE: Most efforts to describe the prognostic significance of psychotic features in depression have been limited to single assessments 1 year or less after the initial evaluation. However, the various biological and treatment response differences ...
April 1996
Clinical and neuropsychological comparison of psychotic depression with nonpsychotic depression and schizophrenia
- Pages:490–496
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.490
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OBJECTIVE: This study compared the clinical and neuropsychological characteristics of patients with psychotic depression to those of patients with nonpsychotic depression and patients with schizophrenia. METHOD: Two hundred eighteen patients over the age ...
April 1996
Judgments of quality of life of individuals with severe mental disorders: Patient self-report versus provider perspectives
- Pages:497–502
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.497
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OBJECTIVE: This study was an investigation of judgments regarding quality of life of individuals with severe mental disorders from two different perspectives: patient self-report versus provider. METHOD: Judgments on several dimensions of quality of life ...
April 1996
Panic, agoraphobia, and vestibular dysfunction
- Pages:503–512
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.503
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OBJECTIVE: Otoneurological abnormalities have been reported in panic disorder. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the prevalence of such findings in panic disorder with and without agoraphobia and to discern whether vestibular dysfunction ...
April 1996
Hyperventilation and panic attacks
- Pages:513–518
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.513
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OBJECTIVE: Hyperventilation has been posed as an important symptom- producing mechanism in panic attacks. Some arguments and experimental findings, such as the possibility of inducing panic symptoms by voluntary hyperventilation in panic disorder patients,...
April 1996
Course of treatment response in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia
- Pages:519–525
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.519
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OBJECTIVE: The timing and clinical correlates of symptom change following antipsychotic treatment were examined in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia. METHOD: The subjects were 36 first-episode schizophrenic patients who had received minimal or no ...
April 1996
Soft signs and neuropsychological performance in schizophrenia
- Pages:526–532
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.526
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OBJECTIVE: Both neuropsychological impairment and neurological soft signs have been documented in at least a subset of patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between soft signs and neuropsychological ...
April 1996
Problem of diagnosis in postmortem brain studies of schizophrenia
- Pages:533–537
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.533
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine 1) the reliability of diagnoses of schizophrenia at coronal autopsy and 2) the degree to which the use of different diagnostic instruments for schizophrenia would affect postmortem brain research. ...
April 1996
Platelet serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor characteristics and parenting factors for boys at risk for delinquency: a preliminary report
- Pages:538–544
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.538
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OBJECTIVE: This study examined the cross-sectional association between platelet membrane serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor variables in children and characteristics of their parents that place these children at risk for antisocial behavior. METHOD: As part ...
April 1996
A 25-year-old woman with hallucinations, hypersexuality, nightmares, and a rash [clinical conference]
- Pages:545–551
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Article
April 1996
Medical student suicide, 1989-1994
- Pages:553–555
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.553
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OBJECTIVE: Studies examining suicide rates for medical students have yielded conflicting data. This article addresses medical student suicide from August 1989 through May 1994. METHOD: Telephone interviews were conducted with a representative from each ...
April 1996
Preliminary report of psychiatric disorders in survivors of a severe earthquake
- Pages:556–558
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.556
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OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to study psychiatric morbidity after a natural disaster in rural India. METHOD: As members of a volunteer medical team assigned to 23 households in three villages in India affected by an earthquake, the authors examined ...
April 1996
Are chronic psychiatric patients at increased risk for developing breast cancer?
- Pages:559–560
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.559
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OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to assess the incidence of breast cancer among chronic psychiatric patients. METHOD: They reviewed mammograms and charts of 275 female patients over the age of 40 in a state psychiatric hospital and 928 women of comparable ...
April 1996
A comparative study of Vietnamese Amerasians, their non-Amerasian siblings, and unrelated, like-aged Vietnamese immigrants
- Pages:561–563
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.561
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OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the personal histories, levels of psychological distress, and adaptation to American life of Vietnamese Amerasians (N=140), their non-Amerasian siblings (N=71), and a group of unrelated, like-aged Vietnamese immigrants (N=...
April 1996
Childhood-onset schizophrenia: brain MRI rescan after 2 years of clozapine maintenance treatment
- Pages:564–566
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.564
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OBJECTIVE: The effect of clozapine on striatal morphology was examined in adolescents with childhood-onset schizophrenia. METHOD: Eight adolescent patients with onset of psychosis before age 12 and eight matched comparison subjects had initial and 2-year ...
Article
April 1996
In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist
- Page:567
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April 1996
Psychiatry in Transition, 2nd ed
- Pages:567-a–568
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.567-a
April 1996
Discovering the History of Psychiatry
- Page:568
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.568
April 1996
Behavioral Neurology: 100 Maxims
- Pages:568-a–569
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.568-a
April 1996
Advances in Neurology, Vol. 65: Behavioral Neurology of Movement Disorders
- Pages:569–570
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.569
April 1996
Epilepsy and Quality of Life
- Page:570
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.570
April 1996
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, 4th ed
- Page:571
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.571
April 1996
The Ego and Analysis of Defense
- Pages:571-a–571
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.571-a
April 1996
Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective
- Page:572
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.572
April 1996
Comparing Schools of Analytic Therapy
- Pages:572-a–573
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.572-a
April 1996
From the Mind Into the Body: The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms
- Page:573
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.573
April 1996
Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos
- Pages:573-a–573
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.573-a
April 1996
Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder
- Page:574
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.574
April 1996
Health and Social Change in International Perspective
- Pages:574-a–575
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.574-a
April 1996
Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with venlafaxine
- Pages:576b–577
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April 1996
Development of obsessive symptoms during nefazodone treatment
- Pages:577b–578
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April 1996
Treatment of somatic delusional disorder with atypical antipsychotic agents
- Pages:578–579
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April 1996
Pilocarpine for anticholinergic adverse effects associated with desipramine treatment
- Pages:579a–579
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April 1996
A psychiatrist's personal description of a panic attack
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April 1996
Correction
- Page:588
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.153.4.588
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In the article "Demonstration in Vivo of Reduced Serotonin Responsivity in the Brain of Untreated Depressed Patients" by J. John Mann, M.D., et al. (February 1996 issue, pp. 174-182), on page 176 there was an error in figure 1, parts A and B. The correct ...