P Decina, S Mukherjee, V Bocola, F Saraceni, C Hadjichristos, P Scapicchio
{"title":"Adjunctive trazodone in the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia.","authors":"P Decina, S Mukherjee, V Bocola, F Saraceni, C Hadjichristos, P Scapicchio","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1220","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study examined whether adjunctive treatment with trazodone would reduce negative symptomatology in patients with chronic, residual schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients selected for the study had an established clinical diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia with stable symptomatology, an absence of florid psychotic symptons, a stable regimen of neuroleptic medication, and an absence of depressive disorder. Active psychotic symptoms were assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) score on the thinking disturbance factor. Negative symptoms were assessed using the BPRS withdrawal retardation factor as well as the affective flattening and alogia subscales from the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms. Forty-nine patients were randomly assigned to either trazodone or placebo in a six-week double-blind trial.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty-seven patients, 23 men and 24 women with an average age of 60 years, completed the six-week trial. Twenty-six of the patients received trazodone. Adjunctive treatment with trazodone significantly reduced the severity ratings on two of three measures of negative symptoms and did not significantly increase the severity of positive symptoms; however, the magnitude of the therapeutic effect was modest. The scores for negative symptoms were reduced by approximately 10 to 15 percent, and only three of the 26 actively treated patients showed moderate clinical improvement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Trazodone, used in conjunction with neuroleptics, mildly reduces the severity of negative symptoms in residual schizophrenia and does not exacerbate florid psychosis. The potential benefits of adjunctive trazodone therapy may outweigh the risk of worsening psychosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1220-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing roles of mental health clinicians in multidisciplinary teams.","authors":"J M Schuster, E E Kern, V Kane, L Nettleman","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1187-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T E Smith, A M Woo-Ming, E Lang, L DeFelice, P J Wilner
{"title":"Rehabilitation psychiatry in the inpatient treatment of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia.","authors":"T E Smith, A M Woo-Ming, E Lang, L DeFelice, P J Wilner","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1179-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prevention of recurrent postpartum major depression.","authors":"K L Wisner, S B Wheeler","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Postpartum depression affects between 10 and 15 percent of new mothers. These mothers are apprehensive about recurrence after later births. This study tested the efficacy of antidepressant medication administered during the postpartum period to prevent a recurrence of postpartum depression among women who had suffered a previous episode.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An open clinical trial was conducted at a university-based outpatient clinic treating pregnant and postpartum women with mood disorders. Study participants were 23 pregnant women who had at least one previous postpartum episode that fit DSM-III-R criteria for nonbipolar major depression without psychotic features. Postpartum monitoring for recurrence of depressive symptoms was compared with postpartum monitoring plus postbirth treatment with either the medication that had been effective for the previous episode or nortriptyline. The first dose was given within 24 hours of birth. The authors assessed recurrence of postpartum major depression by psychiatric examination and use of the Inventory to Diagnose Depression, a reliable self-report instrument.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A significantly greater proportion of the women who elected monitoring alone (62.5 percent) suffered recurrence of major depression compared with the women who received monitoring plus medication (6.7 percent) (p = .0086).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Prophylactic antidepressant treatment reduced the recurrence of postpartum major depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1191-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The early case for caring for the insane in general hospitals.","authors":"J Walkup","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The early argument for caring for the insane in general hospitals arose in the late 1800s in the context of criticisms of the asylum made by neurologists and some psychiatrists. The movement in support of general hospital psychiatry gained ground within psychiatry as the modernization of the general hospital made it a more attractive work site for physicians. By the second decade of this century, a newly independent discipline of hospital administration was providing an audience for psychiatrists who wanted to make the medical and financial case for the value of psychiatric care in the general hospital. Although in the 1930s only a fraction of general hospitals included a \"department for mental patients,\" general hospital psychiatric treatment had ceased to be only a rhetorical or experimental concept and was fast becoming a practical program of treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1224-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An inpatient team's response to alleged sexual misconduct by an outpatient psychotherapist.","authors":"K P Pages, P E Maxim, H Wasch","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1231-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to treat inpatients.","authors":"B Blaska","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1239-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18865696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical development of legal protection for the rights of mentally ill persons in France.","authors":"Y Thoret, S Kantin","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1211","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors trace the development of legal protection of the rights of mentally ill persons to the experiences of Gabriel-Honoré de Riqueti, the Count of Mirabeau, who was imprisoned without due process more than 200 years ago. Influenced by the ideas of the leaders of the American Revolution, he later became a representative to the French Republic's National Assembly and played a pivotal role in defining human rights, including the rights of mentally ill persons, in France. He advocated involvement of judicial authorities in any decision to confine a citizen, even in the case of mental disorder. French civil commitment legislation of 1838 established the authority of physicians and civil officials in commitment decisions, but limited judicial involvement to review after commitment. A new 1990 law limits judicial involvement to review after commitment, but extends the rights of hospitalized patients in many areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1211-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Definitive treatment of patients with serious mental disorders in an emergency service, Part II.","authors":"P Forster, J King","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1177-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors related to psychiatric consultation for schizophrenic patients receiving medical care.","authors":"J H Gilmore, D O Perkins, B A Lindsey","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.12.1233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 12","pages":"1233-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.12.1233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18867733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}