Reports on 3 elderly, verbally agitated patients who improved dramatically with bilateral
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Neuroleptics, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, or …

Galambos, Makeig and Talmachoff (1981) described what they called the 40 Hz event-related
potential (ERP). This steady-state response is an EEG following response to repetitive …

Objectives: To focus on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, especially
endogenous hypercortisolemia, to study its role in the maintenance of psychiatric illness, and to …

1626 Am J Psychiatry 144: 12, December 1987 of the amount of phobic avoidance is a
valuable clinical descriptor. Second, all empirical evidence on the various factors involving this …

Recent work has demonstrated the coexistence of depressive illness in some patients with
dementing disorders. Two cases of mixed depression and dementia showed behavioural and …

One-hundred and eight women participated in a study which screened for depressive symptoms
in the antenatal period. Of these women, 92 completed at least two further screenings …

Reports on the risk of neurotoxicity associated with the use of clozapine. This is illustrated
by the case of a 74-yr-old patient with a history of paranoid schizophrenia who developed …

1. Between 10 and 15% of people over the age of 65 have a potentially treatable depression.
2. The commonest antidepressants used in Canada, the tertiary-amine tricyclics, are …

Norway, Sweden, and Finland have reported high rates, up to 17.0 per 1000 in the Book et
al (1978) study of northern Sweden. The final centre used in the WHO study was the St …

SIR,-Anaphylactic death is always a dramatic medical tragedy. The chest physician who
suggested hyposensitisation for a patient with asthma and allergic rhinitis did so when sodium …