Biological Psychiatry, Higher Nervous Activity

Biological Psychiatry.- Biological Aspects — Organic Brain Syndromes.- Organic Brain Syndromes in DSM-III.- Neuropeptides and Chemical Messengers in the Aging Brain.- Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Studies of Organic Brain Syndromes.- Biological Aspects — Functional Psychoses.- Today’s Problems and Results of Biological Research in Schizophrenia.- Evidence for Alterations of Brain Morphology and Function in Subgroups of Schizophrenic Subjects.- Psychobiological Studies of Mania.- Biochemical and Morphological Abnormalities in Paranoid and Nonparanoid Schizophrenia.- Peptides in Major Psychoses.- Recent Trends in Biological Depression Research.- Genetic Aspects of Psychiatry.- Genetics of Affective Psychoses — Some Methodological Considerations.- Trait, State, HPA Activity in Depression.- Heredity-Environment in Schizophrenia.- X-Linked Inheritance in Affective Disorders.- Genetics of Psychogenic Diseases.- New Prospects in the Treatment of Depression.- Preclinical Pharmacology of Antidepressants.- MAO-Inhibitors Revisited I: Andrenaline (A) and Noradrenaline(NA) in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in Isocarboxazide treated Rats.- MAO-Inhibitors Revisited II: Clinical Implications.- Serotonin in Depression and Suicide.- New Prospects in the Treatment of Depression.- Clinical and Research Aspects of Affective Disorders.- Biological Markers and Antidepressant Treatment Response.- EEG Sleep in Borderline Personality Disorder.- Affective Disorders and Borderline Personality.- Social Aspects of Depression.- Pathochemical Markers in Major Psychoses.- The Significance of Psychopathological Classification in Interpreting Biochemical Findings.- Metabolic Disturbances in Psychiatric Disorder: The Question of Diagnostic Speciticity.- Disturbances in Serine-Glycine Metabolism in Relation to Acute Psychoses with Psychedelic Symptoms.- Peptides and Amines in Affective Disorders.- Morphological Backgrounds of Pathochemical Studies in Major Psychoses.- Dopamine Function and Neuroleptics in Schizophrenia — Post-Mortem Studies of Human Brain Tissue.- Neuroendocrine and Receptor Binding Studies in Schizophrenia.- Decreased CSF Norepinephrine and Monoamine Metabolites in Schizophrenic Patients with Brain Atrophy as Shown with CT Scans.- Steroids in Psychiatry.- Role of Testosterone in Male Sexual Impotence Patients.- Psychotropic Effect of Combined Estrogen-Vit B6 Treatment in Endogenously Depressed Females.- Oestrogen Modulation of Dopamine Receptors: Autoreceptor Implication for Antidepressant Activity.- Neuroleptic-Like Activity of Estrogens.- Interactions between Gonadal Steroids and Neurotransmitters.- Frontiers In Psychoneuroendocrinology.- Neuroendocrine Involvement in Therapeutic Mechanisms of Neuroleptic and Antidepressant Drugs: Studies of Thyroid Axis.- Pharmacoendocrinology and its Clinical Relevance.- Chronobiology of Affective Disorders: Alterations in Circadian Secretion of Pituitary and Pineal Hormones in Bipolar and Unipolar Depression.- Neuroendocrine Control of Pituitary Function in Extrapiramidal Disorders.- Neuroendocrinological Profile of Major Depression.- Positron Emission Tomography.- RO 15 1788-11C: A Specific Radioligand for an “In Vivo” Study of Central Benzodiazepine Receptors, by Positron Emission Tomography.- PET Studies During Hypnosis and Hypnotic Suggestion.- A Study of Epilepsy and Interictal Psychosis Using the 0xygen-15 Inhalation Technique and Positron Emmission Tomography.- PET Studies on Brain Energy Metabolism and Dopamine Receptors in Schizophrenic Patients and Monkeys.- Laterality And Psychopathology.- Dynamic Hemispheric Imbalance in Schizophrenia.- Event-Related Potentials and Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia.- Serotonin and Disturbances of Mood.- Brain Serotonin, Mood-Regulation and Aggression- Regulation.- New Trends in the Pharmacology of Central Serotoninergic Receptors.- Indalpine, a New Serotonin Uptake Inhibitor.- A Double Blind Out Patient Comparative Trial of Indalpine Versus Mianserin.- The Comparative Effects of Indalpine and Amitriptyline on Saliva Production.- Psychobiology of Depression — Recent Findings and Theoretical Models.- Entrainment and Masking in the Chronobiology of Depression.- The Origin of Early REM Sleep Episodes in Depression and other Conditions.- Sleep Structure and Neuroendocrine Rhythms.- Neuroendocrinological Findings in Depression Compared with Findings in Malnutrition, Cushing’s Syndrome and Emotional Stress.- ACTH and Cortisol Secretion in Cushing’s Disease and in Endogenous Depression: Indication of a Common Pathway?.- Effect of Nitrous Oxide on Depressive Patients and Volunteers.- The Old Amine Theory and New Antidepressants.- Relevant Selectivity of Antidepressants.- The Serotonin-Noradrenaline Link-Hypothesis of Affective Disorders.- Biology of Mania.- Biochemistry of Mania.- The Psychopharmacology of Mania: Towards a Unifying Hypothesis.- Prolactin, Growth Hormone and Cortisol in Manic Illness.- Amphetamine Induced Arousal in Human Subjects as a Model for Mania.- Lithium Transport Research: from Cellular Membrane to Clinical Practice.- Ten Years of Lithium Transport Research.- Lithium Ion Transport Mechanisms in Human Erythrocytes.- LI Transport and the Psychoses.- Lithium Transport in Major Affective Disorders: A Model System for Membrane-Plasma and Genetic-Physiologic Interactions.- Lithium Transport in Brain Cells and Human Erythrocytes.- The Genetics of Lithium Metabolism in Major Affective Disorders.- Clinical Applications of Plasma Levels in the Management of Schizophrenia.- Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics of Neuroleptics and Neuroleptic Assay Methodology.- Plasma Levels and the Management of Chronic, Refractory Schizophrenia.- Plasma Levels as Predictors of Clinical Response and Violent Behavior.- Guidelines to Use of Plasma Levels from a Clinical Perspective.- Dosing Neuroleptic Medication With the Help of Electric Registration Of Extrapyramidal Fine Motoricity.- Optimum Dosage of Neuroleptic Agents by Electronic Recording of Extrapyramidal Fine Motoricity in Handwriting.- Computerized Evaluation of Fine-Motor Symptoms.- Fine-Motor Control of Neuroleptic Dosage.- Movement Disorders and Tardive Dyskinesia.- Diagnosis of Tardive Dyskinesia.- Spontaneous Dyskinesias Amongst Psychotic Patients.- Animal Models of Tardive Dyskinesia.- Experimental Tardive Dyskinesia.- Epidemiology of Tardive Dyskinesia.- Gaba-Ergic Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia.- ECT: Background and Current Reserach.- Historical Remarks on the Discovery of ECT.- ECT, Acetylcholine Receptors, and Memory.- Memory Disturbance after ECT in Low-Pressure Narcosis.- The Influence of ECT on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF).- Psychic Changes in Patients With Cerebrovascular Diseases.- Influence of Rheological Therapy on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease.- Organic Dementia: Clinical Picture Related to Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Neuropathological Findings.- Reaction Time in Vascular (Multiinfarct) Dementia.- Computer as a Prosthesis in the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients.- Neuropsychological Aspects in Cortical Blindness due to Cerebral Infarcts.- Clinical and Morphological Aspects in Diagnosis and Prognosis of Vascular Dementia.- Cognitive and Conative Function Changes Depending on CVA and TIA.- Dementia and its Relation to Cerebrovascular Disease.- Organic Brain Syndromes in Cerebrovascular Disease — Early and Mild Cases without Focal Neurological Symptoms and Signs.- Psychic Changes in Patients With Cerebrovascular Diseases.- The Differentiation of Multi-Infarct and Alzheimer Dementia.- Differential Dignosis between Degenerative and Vascular Dementia.- Long Term Clinical Observation of Multi Infarct Dementia.- Systems Science and Systems Therapy.- General Living Systems Theory.- From Descartes to Pavlov to Anokhin: The Evolution of General Systems Concepts in Biomedical Sciences in Eastern Europe.- Systems Therapy.- Psychobiology of Anxiety.- Human Anxiety and Noradrenergic Function: Preliminary Studies with Caffeine, Clonidine and Yohimbine.- Sympathetic-Adrenal and Pituitary-Adrenal Response to Challenge.- Psychophysiological Response Patterns in Anxiety.- Classification of Anxiety Disorders.- Psychobiology of Anorexia Nervosa.- Anorexia Nervosa — An Addiction.- Depression, Anorexia Nervosa and Nutrition: Effects of Starvation on Endocrine Function and Mood.- Perceptions of the Body in Anorexia Nervosa.- Naloxone in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Metabolic and other Effects.- Physiological Basis of Anxiety.- Benzodiazepine Receptor-Mediated “Anxiety” in Patients.- Benzodiazepine and Non-Benzodiazepine Anxiolitics.- Mitral Valve Prolapse: A Mirror for Anxiety?.- The Development of Human Stress Response: Research Findings and Clinical Application.- Components of Human Stress Response: Coping with Hospitalization in Adolescents.- Speech Correlates of Stress and Coping.- Social Environment and Stress: A Study of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Patients and their Families.- The Long-Term Stress of Chronic Illness: An Illustration from Pediatric Oncology.- Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: Stress Syndromes?.- The Role of Psycho-Social Stresses in Bronchial Asthma.- Stress and the Adolescent’s Reproductive System.- Stress and the Heart.- Anti-Anxiety Drugs in Cardiac Disorders.- Psychogenic Hypertension: Experimental Review.- The Relaxation Response and Reduced Norepinephrine Reactivity.- Reduction of Cardiac Risk Factors by Autogenic Training and Physical Training.- Higher Nervous Activity.- Physiological Investigations Of Psychological Processes in Health and Psychiatric Diseases.- Higher Nervous Activity in Psychiatric Patients.- The Two Models of Conditioning of Neurotic Anxiety.- Conditioning of Autonomic Functions, Schizokinesis, and Psychosomatic Medicine.- Biofeedback and Anxiety States.- Biofeedback Treatment in Psychosomatic Illness.- Extinction Failure in Classical Conditioning as a Mechanism of Psychosomatic Illness.- Computer Assisted EEG-Analysis as an Approach to the Exploration of Mental Processes.- Goal Directed Behaviour and Movement Related Brain Macropotentials.- Orienting Reflexes in Psychophysiological Health and Disease.- Cardiorespiratory Orienting Responses as Predictors of Individuals at Risk for Psychovisceral Disorders.- The Orienting Reflex and Functional Stability of the Nervous System.- Anxiety and Attention.- Some Characteristics of Orienting Reflexes.- The Diagnostic Potential of the Orienting Reflex.- Orienting Reflexes in Medical Practice.- Psychopharmacological Implications of the Orienting Reflex.- Basic Research and Clinical Indications of Psychiatric Surgery.- Indications for Psychosurgery: Some Theoretical Aspects.- Follow-Up Study of Obsessive-Compulsive Patients Treated by Psychiatric Surgery in Belgium and The Netherlands from 1971 to 1981.- Author Index.- Summary Contents of Volume I — VIII.