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G Newman

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Development of a computerized sexual assessment laboratory.

Computer-assisted psychological assessment has been operational for 25 years. It has been well received by patients and shows a degree of reliability that is comparable to that of conventional testing. The authors report on the development of a computerized psychosexual assessment laboratory in a forensic facility housing convicted sex offenders who volunteered for treatment. The development of the laboratory was in response to the need for uniform psychosocial data on each resident that can be used for making better diagnoses, developing personalized treatment programs, and assessing treatment outcome. The process of selecting the psychological tests and programming them for interactive administration is described, as are the testing procedures using the penile plethysmograph with stimuli based on the Tanner developmental stages. A computer-assisted psychosocial assessment that produces a psychosocial history was developed. The laboratory's overall value in the treatment program is assessed.

Arousal↗

Homocystinuria presenting as multiple arterial occlusions.

We describe a patient with pyridoxine-responsive homocystinuria who presented with multiple arterial occlusions after pregnancy but who showed no other stigmata of the disease and we suggest that in patients with unusual vascular lesions, screening for homocystinuria should be carried out even in the absence of the other manifestations of the condition. Family screening showed that her brother was also affected but that their children were not, confirming the autosomal recessive model of inheritance. We found the index case to have normal platelet behaviour; both she and her brother had normal veins and arteries on biopsy, so the mechanisms underlying the thrombotic complications remain uncertain. It seems likely that pregnancy contributed to the time of onset of the thrombotic complications in the index case, because of the foetal demands for pyridoxine or folate during gestation.

Adult↗

Effects of a new positive inotropic agent, 3,4-dihydro-6-[4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2(1H)- quinolinone (OPC-8212) and its solvent sulfolane on isolated heart preparations of the rat, guinea pig, and dog.

3,4-Dihydro-6-[4-(3,4- dimethoxybenzoyl )-1-piperazinyl]-2(1H)- qu inolinone ( OPC -8212) has positive inotropic effects in guinea pig and dog isolated heart preparations. The rat heart ventricle does not respond to OPC -8212 but the atria do. OPC -8212 produces positive inotropic effects in the rat heart ventricle made hypodynamic by pretreatment with calcium entry blockers. Sulfolane , the solvent of OPC -8212, produced negative inotropic effects in most preparations. In isolated heart preparations of the rat and guinea pig, OPC -8212 produced increased coronary flow; sulfolane had only minor effects.

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The implications of tattooing in prisoners.

In a prisoner population, the relationship of tattoos and tattooing to type of crime and psychiatric diagnosis was examined. The commission of crimes involving personally assaultive behavior was found to be related to the possession of tattoos. Numbers and themes of tattoos did not correlate with psychiatric diagnosis.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗

Total vertex craniectomy for the treatment of scaphocephaly.

Sutural stripping, morcellation, subtotal craniectomy, and even subtemporal decompression, have been employed in the treatment of sagittal synostosis. This report describes a further modification of past techniques, the total vertex craniectomy. This procedure, employed in 9 patients, has achieved uniformly excellent cosmetic results.

Craniotomy↗