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Kwentus, JA; Silverman, JJ; Sprague, M
doi: N/Apmid: 6711696
Depression, anxiety, and delirium have been associated with metrizamide myelography. The authors report a patient who developed an organic affective disorder with manic symptoms several hours after metrizamide
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Rubinow, DR; Roy-Byrne, P; Hoban, MC; Gold, PW; Post, RM
doi: N/Apmid: 6538762
For prospective longitudinal confirmation of menstrually related mood changes, the authors selected a 100-mm visual analogue scale for twice- daily self-rating of mood. The advantages of this method are simplicity; increased compliance; ease of graphic presentation, allowing evaluation of severity and relationship to menstruation; and greater uniformity among studies of menstrually related syndromes. In a preliminary application of this measure to 20 women with self-diagnosed premenstrual syndrome, eight (40%) had a mean depression rating during the week before menstruation that
Atkinson, RM; Sparr, LF; Sheff, AG; White, RA; Fitzsimmons, JT
doi: N/Apmid: 6711694
Sixty-six Viet Nam veterans were evaluated for posttraumatic stress disorder. Several of the DSM-III criteria for the disorder, but no other clinical features, distinguished patients diagnosed as having the disorder from others. The findings tend to validate the DSM-III construct for this
Yan, SM; Xiang, DZ; Chao, YZ; Chen, DY; Zhang, DQ; Taylor, MA
doi: N/Apmid: 6711692
The authors applied DSM-III criteria to 268 consecutive Chinese inpatients. Nearly a quarter had affective disorder, a third had schizophrenia, and, except for one patient, none had alcoholism or drug abuse. The authors
doi: N/Apmid: 6143508
A patient with anorexia nervosa developed a fatal cardiomyopathy due to ipecac intoxication. Prodromal signs and symptoms included generalized muscle weakness, dysphagia, and severe palpitations. Autopsy revealed
Dackis, CA; Bailey, J; Pottash, AL; Stuckey, RF; Extein, IL; Gold, MS
doi: N/Apmid: 6424482
The authors examined dexamethasone suppression test (DST) and thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) test results in 32 chronic alcoholics without depression or hepatic disease to see if alcoholism alone might lead to positive test results. After 3 weeks of sobriety there were no DST abnormalities, but blunted TRH test results were observed in eight of the 32 alcoholics. More of the 15 patients also tested during alcohol withdrawal than of the 20 normal subjects or the 32 alcoholics without alcohol withdrawal had DST and TRH test abnormalities. When performed after 3 weeks of sobriety, the DST but not the TRH test has potential as a
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