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D Braff

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PubMed1979

Therapist A--B score and treatment outcome with psychiatric in patients: a table of random numbers.

The study evaluated the relationship between therapist personality and treatment success for 141 schizophrenics and 94 non-schizophrenics randomly assigned to short or long hospitalization. The 47 therapists were self-rated on the Whitehorn--Betz A--B scale in both the original and the Campbell versions. Outcome was assessed on the Health--Sickness Rating Scale and the Psychiatric Evaluation Form at discharge and at 1 and 2 year follow-up. The hypothesis of greater success for A--type therapists with schizophrenics was not confirmed, nor were alternative relationships evident in the data.

Affective Symptoms↗
PubMed1978

Unresponsiveness of catatonic symptoms to naloxone.

A case report of a catatonic patient is presented. Because of the similarity of catatonia to the animal behavior produced by intracerebral administration of beta-endorphin, an endogenous opioid, naloxone was administered. No effect was observed with naloxone, whereas both amobarbital and diazepam were able to reverse catatonic behavior. Testing of catatonic patients with naloxone may help further elucidate naloxone's reported anti-psychotic properties.

Adult↗