Showing papers in "Psychosomatics in 1982"

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TL;DR: Bulimia, a disorder most prevalent in teenage and young adult women, is characterized by binge-eating episodes followed by vomiting, abdominal pain, laxative use, or sleep, and is associated with food preoccupation and mild weight fluctuations.

TL;DR: Mortality associated with delirium may be underappreciated in the assessment of delirious patients in a university hospital psychiatric consultation service.

TL;DR: The psychiatrist can thoroughly evaluate the insomniac patient by combining psychiatric assessment with a complete sleep history, and the claim that these conditions are common causes of insomnia is not substantiated by this controlled study.

TL;DR: Five medically ill depressed patients in a general hospital responded well to methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine, indicating that patients were either not able to tolerate tricyclic antidepressants or had a medical illness contraindicating their use.

TL;DR: Report of acute gastric dilatation as a complication of bulimia in a patient with a history of anorexia nervosa who was not emaciated at the time the dilatations developed demonstrates that gastric Dilatation can develop from binging without emaciation.

TL;DR: This article reviews the manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of the Kleine-Levin syndrome, with particular attention to psychiatric symptoms as described in 33 well-documented cases.

TL;DR: Three case histories illustrated by thermograms demonstrate the value of thermography in detecting otherwise overlooked organic disorders, particularly sympathetic dysfunction, that may easily be misdiagnosed as psychogenic pain.

TL;DR: Psychometric follow-up study revealed a significant reduction in dysphoric emotions despite the persistence of somatic complaints, and this findings are evaluated in the context of the subjects’ cognitive styles of locus of control and field-dependence.

TL;DR: Although possibly less effective than the benzodiazepines, the beta-blockers may be useful in controlling the somatic symptoms of anxiety and have not been associated with cognitive impairment.

TL;DR: An interdisciplinary crisis-intervention team aimed at assessing and reducing pathologic grief in mothers who lose a baby and among the factors found associated with increased risk of IGR are the mother's desire for a baby, history of previous psychiatric problems, premature birth, failure to see the baby, and poor communication between the parents.

TL;DR: Catatonic states do not always signify schizophrenia, but they may reflect drug overdose, an acute delirium, or the subacute stage of viral encephalitis.

TL;DR: No significant relationship existed between the psychosocial impairment and the presence or absence of physical complications of the two medical disorders.

TL;DR: The mental symptoms associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis may precede the full-blown, classic picture of hypothyroidism, and patients may be mislabeled as having psychotic depression, paranoid schizophrenia, or the manic phase of a manic depressive disorder.

TL;DR: A seven-item biochemical and hematologic profile is presented which, when used in a computerized linear discriminant analysis procedure, correctly identified 79% of alcoholic patients and 80% of nonalcoholic patients in their study group.

TL;DR: The author reviews studies of prevalence and treatment and considers the implications of changes in sexual behavior in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy for the understanding of the neurophysiology of sexual behavior.

TL;DR: Control of anxiety could possibly aid in achieving metabolic control in diabetic patients with high levels of anxiety, who, however, are probably a minority of the total diabetic population.

TL;DR: It is suggested that while primary task is an important element in determining some attitudes of nurses, social systems variables also contribute substantially to the stress level of unit nurses.

TL;DR: Even without computer analysis, the EEG can provide significant information for differential diagnosis, for selection of type and dosage of psychotropic drugs, and for monitoring drug treatment.

TL;DR: The findings support the value of the HSCL as a screening instrument for the detection of anxiety and depression in nonpsychiatric medical patients.

TL;DR: Research indicates that nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) can be viewed as a biologic marker for physiologic erectile capacity and can help to distinguish between physicogenic and psychogenic impotence.

TL;DR: The author proposes seven factors that contribute to the problem of underdiagnosis and undertreatment of psychiatric illness in medical patients and makes a plea for humanistic interpretation of medical advances and increased collaboration between psychiatry and the rest of medicine.