Biomedical subjects
J S Silverman
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A new approach to health system reform: seizing the moral high ground.
Has economic imperialism seduced physicians into viewing medicine as more of a business than a profession? Yes, says one State Society member. He proposes that doctors subordinate personal interests to the public interest, establishing a "Hoover Commission" to redesign health care.
Brain-mapping abnormalities in a family with three obsessive compulsive children.
Brain electrical activity mapping (BEAM) and personality disorder assessment (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II) were performed on a married couple and their four children. Three of the children had previously been identified as having obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Temporal lobe abnormalities were found in all four children but in neither parent. If there is a neurophysiologic basis for this subtype of OCD, brain electrical abnormalities may be necessary, but not sufficient, to produce the clinical syndrome. Delineation of specific electrophysiological and personality characteristics may help define subtypes of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Do maladaptive attitudes cause depression?
The Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) is an inventory of beliefs about life. These beliefs attribute happiness to external events and reflect absolute expectations for one's own behavior and that of others. Such beliefs, according to some cognitive theorists, predispose persons to depression. To test this theory, we administered the DAS to private psychiatric outpatients. Thirty-five patients were tested when they were depressed and again when they were asymptomatic. Dysfunctional thinking was found to be more prominent during depression; this finding implies that the dysfunctional thinking of depressed persons is a symptom of their illness rather than a character trait. Next, we compared DAS scores for recovered depressives with scores for other stabilized psychiatric patients and for normal persons. Bipolar patients demonstrated less maladaptive thinking than all other groups. Only the bipolars showed significantly less maladaptive thinking than the major depressives.
Obsessional disorders in childhood and adolescence. Developmental, therapeutic and nosologic aspects.
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Relation between cardiac patterns and reading performance in second and fourth grade children.
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Hyperventilation syndrome.
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