abstract：:Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a major public health problem with over 12,000 cases and 6,000 deaths reported to date. Although there has been an explosion of knowledge in the virology, immunology and pathology of AIDS, relatively little has been written on the neuropsychiatric aspects. This rep...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Detmer WM,Lu FG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article addresses some of the complex issues surrounding antidepressant drug usage among elderly depressives. While primarily geared toward the psychiatrist in general practice, the article provides useful information for the nonpsychiatric physician who is frequently called upon to evaluate and treat affe...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Halaris A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a thirty-eight-year-old woman who developed a febrile illness which was associated with a rise of blood lithium and amitriptyline, and subsequently suffered permanent neurological impairment, implicating CNS dysfunction at several levels. Medical, laboratory, radiological and neuropsychological ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Pheterson AD,Miller L,Fox CF,Estroff TW,Sweeney DR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of the putative "serotonin irritation syndrome" (SIS) was tested in a human population. Volunteers were exposed to a highly cationized environment for two hours. Symptoms of anxiety and excitement significantly increased. During the time of exposure serum serotonin levels also increased significantly. Th...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Giannini AJ,Jones BT,Loiselle RH,Price WA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent case reports have suggested an association between anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Fifty-eight females aged fifteen to twenty-two with IDDM for more than one year were assessed for the presence of eating disorders. Patients were screened for eating and weight pat...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Rodin GM,Johnson LE,Garfinkel PE,Daneman D,Kenshole AB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been consistent reports in the psychosomatic literature indicating that a patient's perception of tinnitus as well as differential response to various treatment modalities may be affected by personality variables. The present study examined several personality correlates of subjective tinnitus in forty-five...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Gerber KE,Nehemkis AM,Charter RA,Jones HC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam, a unique benzodiazepine with anticonvulsant and serotonin enhancing capacity, can be used in conjunction with conventional psychopharmacologic agents to treat a variety of psychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and psychotic mania. Three representative case studies...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Freinhar JP,Alvarez WA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated biopsychosocial treatment is necessary for medical patients in whom psychosocial and behavioral issues strongly influence medical outcome. In this article the authors identify several large groups of such patients, and point out the limitations of three established approaches to improving their care: psycho...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Fogel BS,Goldberg RJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:State and trait anxiety correlates of eight dimensions of illness behavior in response to myocardial infarction, were examined for 120 survivors of myocardial infarction. Six of eight illness behavior dimensions were found to be significantly associated with measures of state anxiety or trait anxiety or both. Trait an...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Byrne DG,Whyte HM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents several case studies which illustrate the way in which a terminal patient's attention may be diverted from the primary disease process, cancer, to secondary somatic symptomatology such as pain and nausea. This phenomenon has important consequences for the patient, family, physician, and the patie...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Wright MH,Nehemkis AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis encephalopathy (DE) is a distinct neuropsychiatric syndrome typically occurring in patients undergoing longterm hemodialysis. It is characterized by electroencephalographic abnormalities in association with disturbances of speech, cognition, movement, affect, or behavior. Previously thought to be relentlessly...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Jack R,Rabin PL,McKinney TD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty right-handed adult subjects, divided equally into three groups (mildly depressed, normal, and "low normal") on the basis of the Zung self-Rating Depression Scale, were exposed for forty seconds each to forty-eight imagery items designed to reflect happy, sad, angry, and fearful situations. Expressed emotion (fac...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Brown SL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) appears to be a sensitive and specific biological marker for endogenous depression that can have important diagnostic and treatment implications. The authors present three case studies of patients treated on a combined medicine-psychiatric inpatient unit, and who presented with...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Nelson WH,Orr WW Jr,Sullivan CR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-hundred seventy-seven family physicians were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the types of psychosocial problems encountered in their practices, the amount of time they felt they devoted to each problem, and their interests regarding continuing psychiatric education. Patients with "multiple somatic complain...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Stoudemire A,Thompson TL 2nd,Mitchell W,Grant RL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of accident/error rates was carried out on thirty-one nursing students. Recent life changes and stresses, social support available to cope with this stress, depression, illness rate, and coping skills were measured at baseline. Five weeks later students recorded accidents suffered and errors made o...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sheehan DV,O'Donnell J,Fitzgerald A,Hervig L,Ward H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors discuss the case of a mildly disfigured patient with Neurofibromatosis from the perspectives of his distorted body image, need to attribute problems in his social and work lives to unrealistic assessment of his disfigurement, changes in his self-concept following communication training, and the need for ph...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Roback HB,Kirshner H,Roback E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases from an adolescent dialysis group are presented to illustrate the limitations of the generally used models of patient compliance and noncompliance with medical treatment. Understanding the noncompliance of these two young men required awareness of their psychological development and of the interpersonal matr...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Armstrong SH,Weiner MF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation and loss issues arise frequently in pediatric hospital settings. Three forms of psychiatry/psychology liaison are presented which demonstrate: 1. case-centered collaboration to address child and family concerns about death; 2. team-centered activities which link family and staff roles in the course of termi...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Whitt JK,Hunter RS,Dykstra W,Lauria MM,Stabler B,Taylor CA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphasis on the process and content of the emotional aspects of rehabilitation are presented as a process interwoven with a patient's physical rehabilitation. The impact of trauma and subsequent rehabilitation involves for patients the resolution of these stages: shock, denial, depressive reaction, reaction against in...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Krueger DW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philosophical and theological notions regarding food and eating are briefly reviewed, as is the history of anorexia nervosa. Modern studies of social, psychological, and biological aspects of anorexia nervosa have failed, as yet, to provide an organized coherent understanding of the etiology of this disorder. ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Giannini AJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many leaders of the medical profession feel that community physicians should take responsibility for the psychiatric disorders of their patients, only a little more than half of the respondents in the current study agreed. The variations in willingness to take on this role and in interest in psychiatric activ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hull J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive illness was a common clinical syndrome found in general practice in Hong Kong. The phenomenon of somatization among Chinese depressives in general practice was investigated. Patients clinically identified as depressed were compared with organic patients in terms of their presenting complaints and responses ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Cheung FM,Lau BW,Waldmann E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one individuals underwent extensive psychological evaluation before, and four months after, coronary bypass surgery, that examined: defensive mechanisms; fantasies and distortions; subjective meaning of the procedure; and transference and projections. Patients showed a significant improvement in their physical ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Thurer S,Levine F,Thurer R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical and pragmatic considerations often preclude the application of classical experimental approaches to in vivo thanatological research. While quasi-experimental and correlational designs may be employed to circumvent a number of potential problems, many more empirically testable research questions simply remain u...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Devins GM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study over three months explored whether measures of response "qualities" of life change events (e.g., whether the event was positive or negative in its subjective impact) enhance the ability of a simple counting of recent life change events to predict near future illness rates. Thirty-four nursing stude...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sheehan DV,O'Donnell J,Fitzgerald A,Hervig L,Ward H

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the delivery of medical, psychiatric and social work services to residents of a facility for the aged. Although the Home had already benefited from the introduction of sound medical standards and the influence of an acute medical hospital, a satisfactory staff organization needed to be developed t...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Breslau L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes four approaches to the evaluation of hospital psychiatric consultation. These are: 1) a survey of actual consultation use; 2) a house staff attitudinal survey; 3) a patient chart review; and 4) a patient questionnaire. The findings of this project and those previously reported are: 1) The psychia...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sasser M,Kinzie JD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the use of a behavior modification program as an adjunct to the medical treatment of essential hypertension. The subjects, outpatients with medically treated, but uncontrolled, essential hypertension, were exposed to group interaction (including such processes as peer reinforcement, peer competitio...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Ziesat HA Jr

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who have both medical and psychiatric illnesses often present very difficult diagnostic and treatment problems. Cross referrals by the two or more specialties necessarily involved in their management are often perceived by these patients as rejection and not only may induce in them feelings of frustration, he...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hossenlopp CM,Holland J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression, anxiety and fear of recurrence following myocardial infarction often lead to disability in excess of actual cardiac impairment in a large number of patients. The high social, economic and emotional cost of psychogenic cardiac invalidism has stimulated the development of cardiovascular rehabilitation progra...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Soloff PH

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of patterns of communications in families with a terminal cancer patient being treated at three urban institutions revealed that may first-order relatives (spouses, children, siblings) of patients did not have a communication link to the physician, especially if direct communication was not established at the ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Krant MJ,Johnston L

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During five years of self-medication with Prednisone, a forty-one-year old asthmatic businessman experienced periods of euphoria, psychomotor hyperactivity, and poor judgement; a period of depression and anxiety during temporary steroid withdrawal; and finally, with resumption of Prednisone, episodes of grandiosity an...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Gifford S,Murawski BJ,Kline NS,Sachar EJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Existential Plight in cancer is a poorly recognized but significant period. It starts with the definite diagnosis and continues for two to three months into the illness, approximately 100 days. The chief signs are the predominance of life/death concerns, e-en over worries about health or physical symptoms. One hun...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Weisman AD,Worden JW

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a review of some of the sparse investigation of EEG concomitants of verbally induced stress. The difficulties encountered in good experimental design in this formidable area, which may account for the paucity of work, are discussed. A recent experiment in which spectral analysis of EEG played a promine...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hanley J

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological triad of host, agent and environment used conceptually in infectious disease may serve as a model for psychosomatic disorders, despite the involvement of many more variables. There are major problems with diagnosis and measurement, however, and the term "psychosomatic" has several meanings. The two...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Eastwood MR

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients coming to general hospital emergency rooms often present mixed physical and psychological problems. An unfortunate tendency of physicians caring for these patients to "label" them as either "organic" or "psychiatric," based on initial impressions, may lead to inadequate diagnosis and improper treatment. Four ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Leeman CP

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short-term, open membership group therapy program for kidney transplant patients and their families is described. The content and process of this group is related to the ten curative factors described by Yalom for psychiatric patients. The primary benefits for the patients seemed to be the opportunity to observe oth...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Buchanan DC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the management of patients it is often important to combine physical and psychotherapeutic treatment methods according to the individual patient's needs. In analytically oriented psychotherapy more attention can usefully be paid to the patient's bodily attitudes and behavior than has been customary. A psychosomatic...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Kinston M,Wolff H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mrs. A. B., a 61-year-old woman who presented with carcinoma of the breast in 1964, was readmitted to the hospital in 1974 in respiratory distress ensuing from chronic lung disease and metastatic illness. An active member of Alcoholics Anonymous for the past sixteen years, she had a living pattern in which she felt in...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Abramson R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible that Jack the Ripper can be understood in terms of doctor-identification borne of one or more terrifying experiences he may have had with doctors during his childhood. The fantasies acted out by this primitive murderer are similar to the fantasies experienced by people who have been surgically traumatiz...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Shuster S

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00