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Amitriptyline: Comparison of Three Different Dosage Schedules in Neurotic Depression
Domenico De Maio, Alessandro Levi-Minzi
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29 January 2018, pp. 73-76
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Three groups of neurotic depressed patients were treated with amitriptyline, one group receiving the customary three daily doses, another a single dose in the morning, and the third a single dose at night. All three groups showed significant decrements of total scores on the Hamilton Scale for Depression and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale without significant differences. Patients taking the drug at night showed a lower incidence of side effects.

The Royal Medico-Psychological Association Reports on Psychiatric Education: 1. Report on the Questionnaire on Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry
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29 January 2018, pp. 1441-1454
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In 1965 the Education Committee drew up a questionnaire on postgraduate teaching (prepared in a form suitable for I.B.M. punching) which was then circulated to every psychiatric hospital, psychiatric unit and teaching hospital in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and to those hospitals abroad recognized by the Conjoint Board as providing training for the D.P.M. The questionnaires were sent out late in 1965, and after two sets of reminders the returned results were processed by the Tabulating Research Centre at Hampstead. Regrettably, the Centre, although providing a great deal of information very quickly, delayed for almost a year completing the processing of the data.

The Galway Study of Panic Disorder IV: Temporal Stability of Diagnosis by Present State Examination Test–Retest
D. O'Rourke, T. J. Fahy, P. Prescott
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02 January 2018, pp. 98-100
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Background
A long-term outcome study of DSM–III–R panic disorder included the Present State Examination (PSE) at baseline and follow up five to six years later.
Method
PSE test–retest and individual within-patient change scores on various PSE syndromes were assessed for consistency with either a categorical view of panic disorder as a stable clinical entity or panic disorder as one facet only of a ‘general neurotic syndrome’.
Results
PSE profile at baseline was virtually identical with that at follow up. Few patients had ‘changed’ in PSE syndrome diagnosis after five to six years.
Conclusion
These data, although not conclusive, are supportive of the concept of DSM–III–R panic disorder as a stable clinical entity and are correspondingly difficult to reconcile with the view that panic disorder is but one facet only of a general neurotic syndrome.

The British Journal of Psychiatry