Showing papers in "Comprehensive Psychiatry in 1978"

TL;DR: Preliminary findings suggest that “hyperactivity” is an early and enduring clinical feature of anorexia nervosa and not merely secondary to either a conscious attempt to lose weight or weight loss per se.

TL;DR: Number of seizures, number of sessions, and seizure durations produced during ECT to determine whether such parameters are of importance in assessing clinical effects and whether there is an optimum seizure length to produce beneficial effect.

TL;DR: A review of the EST process finds its efficacy and safety in the treatment of psychotic depressive states and mania to be well-documented and its risk/benefit ratio equal to or better than other available treatments.

TL;DR: The results will be extended to a much larger sample of patients, rated since the earlier study, to examine relationships between the degree and patterns of social dysfunction on one hand, and the symptoms of depression on the other.

TL;DR: A 10-year further follow-up of 16 boys with early effeminate behavior, a group of cases first reported in 1966, finds two of the cases were heterosexually oriented, and in the remaining two, no decision could be reached as to their sexual orientation.

TL;DR: Are psychiatric conditions diseases?

TL;DR: The diagnosis of patients restrained and the behavioral precipitants of restraint are the focus of this report, which systematically survey the use of physical restraint in an acute inpatient milieu.

TL;DR: The experience of 28 patients who received this combination of drugs for the treatment of acute mania with haloperidol and lithium carbonate is presented.

TL;DR: This study describes the psychiatric problems, during the freshman year, of such a randomly selected, prospectively studied sample of 158 college students, a study design that avoids the problems of using a treated population.

TL;DR: Over a period of several years, drug studies conducted at the Missouri Institute of Psychiatry and replicated in Turkey suggested that discharge problems of schizophrenia patients in both countries were severe, but diametrically opposed in nature.

TL;DR: Success is described in constructing relatively simple mathematic models for the rates of relapse in manic-depressive illness under both lithium carbonate and control treatment using data from these two independent studies of lithium prophylaxis.

TL;DR: Four individual case studies from the lithium-treated group in the double-blind study showed an unambiguous improvement in their overall ability to control overt violent aggressive behavior while on lithium.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to study marital adjustment in patients with primary affective disorder with the use of a similar instrument to the one used by Weissman and Paykel with the following questions in mind.

TL;DR: It is suggested that Schneider-oriented German schizophrenics with first-rank symptoms, although containing a high percentage of research diagnosable schizophrenia, do not clearly represent an homogeneous and “uncontaminated” sample of schizophrenics.

TL;DR: Although free-thyroxine index is commonly used as a reliable method for thyroid function investigation, only Rybakowski and Sowinski have used this method for the assessment of thyroid function in mania and it was thought that further research in this area would be justified.

TL;DR: This article will present studies published since Stein's review within a conceptual context that focuses on therapeutic ingredients of group treatment procedures for patients with ongoing medical problems.

TL;DR: The present follow-up evaluation focused on the perspectives of former inpatients and their nearest relatives with regard to aspects of the patients' general level of functioning and satisfaction with hospital care 6 months post-discharge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify features important for time-limited hospital treatment of patients with borderline character pathology in order to allow borderline patients to return to the community in a more functional mode than when they entered the hospital.

TL;DR: The present study evolved from observations that residents in several residency programs in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Md. vicinity seemed to share the same opinions about the worth of various therapies regardless of level of training and orientation of their programs.