Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Retardation, and Geriatric Psychiatry

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Importance of Neuroleptics in Treating Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence....Pages 99-101
Mental Health Screening of Children in Japan....Pages 103-108
Use of Rutter Scales with Indo-Chinese Children....Pages 109-115
Some Critical Comments on the Problem of Classification and Nomenclature in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry....Pages 1-6
Studies of Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience in Children....Pages 7-10
Problems in Nomenclature and Classification of MBD....Pages 11-16
Anorexia Nervosa in Early Adolescence....Pages 17-22
Neuropsychological Disorders in Childhood and Schizophrenia....Pages 23-25
Teaching Child Psychiatry in the U.S.A.....Pages 27-32
Training in Child Psychiatry in Indonesia....Pages 33-39
Basic Concepts on Hyperkinesis in Children....Pages 41-46
Early Childhood Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome....Pages 47-52
Effects of Brain Injury in Children....Pages 53-57
Childhood Hyperkinesis: Symptom or Syndrome, Discriminating Through the Use of L-Dopa as a Therapeutic Agent....Pages 59-64
A Childhood Variant of Manic-Depressive Illness....Pages 65-71
Epilepsy and Psychosis in Childhood....Pages 73-78
Identifying Lithium-Responsive Children....Pages 79-82
Lithium Responsive Children and Adolescents....Pages 83-87
Altered Prolactin Response in Anorexia Nervosa....Pages 89-93
Artistic Media in Therapy for Children with Developmental Problems....Pages 95-98
The Psychopathic Nucleus in Adolescent Psychopathology....Pages 117-121
Minor Psychiatric Illness in Mothers of Young Children....Pages 123-125
Brain Dysfunction as a Cause of Reading Disabilities-Cross Cultured....Pages 127-132
The Social-Class Background of Mentally Retarded Childen: A Study in Mannheim....Pages 133-139
The Immigrant Child in the School....Pages 141-146
Sociocultural Determinants of Postnatal Depression and Postnatal Blues: How Important are They?....Pages 147-152
Puerperal Psychosis: Definition and Future Directions....Pages 153-155
Postnatal Depression: Aetiology and Consequences....Pages 157-163
Post-Natal Depression and Subsequent Child Development: A Three Year Follow-Up Study....Pages 165-170
Maternal Mental Illness and Mother-Child Bonding Disorders....Pages 171-176
Psychiatry and Mental Retardation: A Historical Perspective....Pages 177-181
Psychiatric Syndromes Affecting Retarded Persons in Residential Care....Pages 183-187
Autism and Disturbance of Social Contact in Mentally Retarded Children....Pages 189-194
Schizophrenia in the Mentally Retarded....Pages 195-201
Psychiatric Consultation to a Residential Facility for the Mentally Retarded....Pages 203-209
Specialised Needs of the Retarded: Epidemiological Surveys....Pages 211-216
Problem Concerning the Relationship Between Parents and their Handicapped Children....Pages 217-219
Mental Health Treatment Modalities for the Mentally Retarded....Pages 221-226
An Adaptive Handicap: Borderline Personality Disorder in the Mentally Impaired....Pages 227-234
Community Based Programs for the Mentally Retarded....Pages 235-240
Mental Health Services to Community-Based Retarded Citizens....Pages 241-246
Issues and Day Treatment for the Dual Diagnosed: Mental Illness/Mental Retardation....Pages 247-252
Mental Impairment in the Aged: Towards Establishing a Differential Diagnosis....Pages 367-375
Epidemiology of Dementia....Pages 253-261
Risk Factors in Late Life Dementia....Pages 263-271
Predictive Factors in Senile Dementia a Clinical and CT Scan Study....Pages 273-276
Cerebral Insufficiency in First Stage Dementia....Pages 277-281
Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Aging, Dementia, and Down Syndrome....Pages 283-288
Clinical Assessment of Cognitive Decline in Normal Aging and Primary Degenerative Dementia: Concordant Ordinal Measures....Pages 333-338
Pre-Dementia and Psychotropic Drug Treatment with Cerebral Specific Phospholipids....Pages 339-346
Progressive Brain Failure — A Home Assessment and Treatment Program....Pages 347-353
Diagnostic Problems with Aged People, Showing Demential Behaviour....Pages 355-357
Dementias as Multi-Stage Processes....Pages 359-365
Psychophysiologic Disorders of the Elderly....Pages 289-294
Hypertension in the Elderly: A Sleeping Dog?....Pages 295-299
Quantitative Computed Tomography in Elderly Depressed Patients....Pages 301-303
Seizure Disorders in the Aged....Pages 305-309
The Dopaminergic and Noradrenergic Systems in Alzheimer-Type Dementia....Pages 311-316
Dementia in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Review of Biochemical Data....Pages 317-325
Vasopressin and Cognitive Performance in Man....Pages 327-332
The Contribution of Blood Levels to the Reversibility of “Resistant” Depression....Pages 377-382
Psychogeriatrics and the Family Doctor: Collaboration in the Care of Dementia....Pages 383-388
Affective Disorders in Late Life: Pharmacotherapy....Pages 389-393
Pharmacotherapy of the Organic Brain Syndrome in Late Life....Pages 395-402
Metabolic/Circulatory Aspects of Gerontopsychopharmacotherapy....Pages 403-409
Neurophysiological Aspects of Gerontopsychopharmacotherapy....Pages 411-416
Paradoxical Relationships between Services, Needs and Outcomes....Pages 417-419
Problems of Patients and Relatives at Referral: A Preliminary Report of the Characteristics of Elderly Patients/Clients Referred to Social Service Departments - Geriatric Medicine and Psychiatric Services....Pages 421-427
The Boundary between Psychiatry and Gerontopsychiatry....Pages 429-435
Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Psycho-Geriatric Sector Organization....Pages 437-441
Geropsychiatry — Status and Services in India....Pages 443-448
Family Therapy in Serious and Terminal Illness....Pages 449-455
Day-Hospital Care for the Elderly....Pages 457-460
The Place of Day-Hospitals in a Psychogeriatric Sectorial Organization....Pages 461-465
Day Centres, Day Care and Day Hospital in the United States and Canada — Or how to Compare Apples, Oranges, Carrots and Shoelaces....Pages 467-474
The Geriatric Day Hospital in Frankfurt am Main — Höchst: An Alternative....Pages 475-478
Tentative Approaches to Evaluating Psychogeriatric Day Hospital Treatment....Pages 479-485
Day Hospital Care for the Elderly in the Netherlands....Pages 487-491
Psychoinvolute Disturbances: Therapeutic Possibilities....Pages 493-498
Back Matter....Pages 499-514