Biomedical subjects

D Sellman

Publications and source records attributed to D Sellman.

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PubMed1987

The dexamethasone suppression test in psychiatry.

The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) for depression (melancholia) has been the focus of considerable recent interest because of claims that it may be a sensitive and specific biological marker for melancholia. When the data from four separate studies were combined, 52% of our patients with major depression were DST nonsuppressors. However, nonsuppression was also observed in 11% of manic patients, 20% of schizophrenic patients and 15% of nondepressed abstinent alcoholics. These results, in conjunction with other reports, suggest that the specificity of the test is not sufficiently high to make it a satisfactory general diagnostic test.

Alcoholism↗

PubMed1985

The public's perception of psychiatrists: a telephone survey.

A random telephone survey in the Christchurch toll free area showed: The public generally lacks knowledge about psychiatrists particularly the 60+ age group in their knowledge of whether or not psychiatrists are medical doctors, where they work and what treatments they use; he public's most common association with where psychiatrists work in Christchurch is Sunnyside Hospital, the local public psychiatric hospital and with talking/psychotherapy as a form of treatment they use; and (3) although psychiatrists are perceived negatively compared with family doctors, dentists and lawyers and although people seem reluctant to say a psychiatrist could help them if they had personal problems, nearly half the sample thought there were not enough psychiatrists in New Zealand.

Humans↗

PubMed1984