Disease relevance of National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• Among the 30 cases of PME studied during 1982 and 1992 at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, South India, the specific diagnoses included Lafora disease (LD), neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) [1].

Psychiatry related information on National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• We used survival analysis to test for a suspected effect of co-morbidity of DIS/DSM-III major depression and panic attack on the age of onset of each of these disorders, in a population-based sample from four sites of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program (N = 12668) [2].
• Using prospective data from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Epidemiologic Catchment Area surveys, we examined the relationship of depressive symptoms among patients seen by general medical practitioners, with the subsequent development of major depressive disorder [3].
• In a sample of 55 consecutive methadone maintenance admissions to our clinic, 42% were diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) using the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule NIMH DIS [4].
• Using respondents in the US National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area project of the Piedmont Region of North Carolina, Grade of Membership analysis was applied to all respondents reporting 3 or more somatic symptoms from the somatization disorder section of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule [5].
• The National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule for children-Parent version (DISC-P) was used to elicit information on DSM-III-R diagnoses of simple phobia, overanxious, separation anxiety, oppositional defiant, and ADHD [6].

High impact information on National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• The clinical utility of the dexamethasone suppression test in psychiatry. Summary of a National Institute of Mental Health workshop [7].
• METHODS: The National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression-Clinical Studies provided data on 96 male and 101 female subjects who were diagnosed as having a first episode of unipolar major depressive disorder at intake and on whom prospective data were available [8].
• The Collaborative Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the MTA, is the first child multisite cooperative agreement treatment study of children conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md [9].
• Dependent measures included the 24-item National Institute of Mental Health Self-Rating Scale, plasma corticotropin, cortisol, prolactin, growth hormone, and norepinephrine concentrations, and core temperatures [10].
• More appropriate survival analytic techniques were applied to the data from the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study of bipolar patients treated with lithium carbonate, imipramine hydrochloride, or both [11].

Biological context of National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• Gonadotropin-releasing hormone stimulation tests (100 micrograms intravenous gonadotropin-releasing hormone) were performed in the National Institute of Mental Health outpatient clinic during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle or randomly in postmenopausal women [12].
• Among these agencies are the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control (Centers for Disease Control), the Office of Minority Health (Department of Health and Human Services), and the Antisocial and Violent Behavior Branch (National Institute of Mental Health) [13].

Anatomical context of National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• In 1980, investigators at the National Institute of Mental Health reported that bright light could suppress melatonin production in humans, thereby demonstrating unequivocally the powerful effects of light on the human central nervous system [14].

Associations of National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) with chemical compounds

• In the first study assessing responsiveness of winter depression to a standard pharmacologic treatment for depression, the authors found that 14 patients meeting National Institute of Mental Health criteria for winter depression responded to treatment with tranylcypromine [15].
• In September 1994, the National Institute of Mental Health convened a group of scientists to discuss the clinical effects of rapid clozapine discontinuation, especially in light of the introduction of risperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia [16].
• RESULTS: A majority of patients (85%) treated with clonidine for ADHD-associated sleep disturbances were considered to be much to very much improved by the National Institute of Mental Health global assessment of improvement (sleep) [17].
• These two studies show that fluvoxamine is associated with significant improvement on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), the National Institute of Mental Health Obsessive Compulsive Scale (NIMH-OC) and the Global Improvement item of the Clinical Global Impression (CGImp) Scale, compared with placebo [18].
• In three separate studies, conducted collaboratively between the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of California at San Diego, physostigmine and arecoline associated increases in plasma concentrations of beta-endorphin immunoreactivity were highly correlated with increases in plasma prolactin concentrations [19].

Gene context of National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

• The workshop noted that there was possibly a degree of overlap between the regions implicated by the large samples of the multiplex National Institute of Mental Health pedigrees (affected sib pair analysis: p = 0.0006) and the US/Israeli pedigrees of the New York group (admixture lod = 3.35), in an area a few centimorgans proximal to PFKL [20].
• The time course of nonchronic major depressive disorder. Uniformity across episodes and samples. National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression--Clinical Studies [21].
• Panic disorder and other diagnoses were made using the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule and DSM-III criteria [22].
• Antipsychotics: Past and Future: National Institute of Mental Health Division of Services and Intervention Research Workshop, July 14, 1998 [23].
• Recent action plans, including the "Decade of the Brain," the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) A National Plan for Schizophrenia Research, and NIMH's report, Caring for People With Severe Mental Disorders: A National Plan of Research to Improve Services, promise major new advances over the next several years [24].

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