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G B Kish

Publications and source records attributed to G B Kish.

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PubMed1989

Clinical meaning of the Keane PTSD Scale.

A correlational study that included 82 male inpatient alcoholics was conducted to determine the clinical meaning of the Keane PTSD Scale of the MMPI. The PTSD Scale was correlated with the variables of the Shipley Institute of Living Scale, the Life Purpose Questionnaire, the Existential Depression Test, and the standard MMPI measures, plus the A, R, Es and MacAndrew Scales. The pattern of correlations suggested that the PTSD scale measures general psychological maladjustment and dysphoric feelings rather than any specifiable syndrome. The strong correlation with the Welch A, which measures a general level of maladjustment, suggests that the PTSD and Welch A scales are measuring the same factor. The PTSD scale, therefore, appears to provide very little information about this population beyond that available from the overall clinical profile and the Welch A scale.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Alcoholics' recovery from cerebral impairment as a function of duration of abstinence.

There is clear evidence in the literature for permanent cerebral impairment due to prolonged alcohol abuse. Observation also suggests that there is a component of this cerebral impairment that is found immediately subsequent to heavy drinking and that is reversible. This study examined the time-course of recovery from this temporary impairment and delineated more specifically the neuropsychological functions that participate in the recovery. Four groups (N = 87) of hospitalized male alcoholics were tested after 6, 15, 21, and 110 days of abstinence using the Raven Progressive Matrices, the Trail-Making Test, the Memory for Designs, and the following subscales of the WAIS: Arithmetic, Digit Span, Block Design, Similarities, and Digit Symbol. The results indicated that significant improvement occurred during the third week of abstinence (between 15 and 21 days) on the Digit Span, Block Design, Similarities, Memory for Designs, Raven, and Trail-Making tests, but not on the Arithmetic and Digit Symbol tests. These results suggest that treatment programs that use a preliminary "drying-out" period should consider lengthening this period to 3 weeks to insure that patients are maximally responsive to psychotherapy.

Alcohol Drinking↗
PubMed1976

Augmenting-reducing and sensation seeking: a test of Sales' hypothesis.

Physiologically, augmenters amplify incoming stimulation, while reducers attenuate such stimulation. Sales has theorized that this characteristic is a determinant of an individual's need for stimulation and that reducers require more actual stimulation to reach this perceived optimal level than do augmenters. The theory predicts that measures of these characteristics would be correlated. The absolute auditory threshold was used as a measure of augmenting-reducing and the Sensation-Seeking Scale as a measure of need for stimulation in a study that tested 42 college students. The theoretical prediction was not confirmed. The bearing of these negative findings upon Sales' theory and the possibility that the auditory threshold is not a valid measure of augmenting-reducing were discussed.

Adolescent↗