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October 1984, Vol 41, No. 10 >
Article | October 1984

Psychiatric Epidemiology Counts

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(10):931-933. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1984.01790210013002
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This issue of the Archives reports on the preliminary results of a comprehensive collaborative effort by scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health and in the field to assess the prevalence of mental disorders in the United States. The "survey" is far more than a simple census. It is a landmark in the development of American contributions to the psychiatric knowledge base. This is so in several senses.

The forthcoming data of the NIMH Epidemiological Catchment Area program (ECA) surely will serve as a kind of topographic map, a background charting relative peaks and valleys and their specific contents. Against this descriptive frame, a range of special studies and more focused analytic ones can be generated and compared. Crosscultural study, samples of patients and families drawn from clinical practice or from various registers and longitudinal study populations can be matched against the topographic coordinates or anchor points that

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Leckman JF, Weissman MM, Merikangas KR, Pauls DL, Prusoff BA:  Panic disorder and major depression: Increased risk of depression, alcoholism, panic, and phobic disorders in families of depressed probands with panic disorder . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1983;;40:1055-1060.
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Carey G:  Genetic influences on anxiety neurosis , in Matthew RJ (ed): The Biology of Anxiety . New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1983;, pp 37-50.
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Holzman PS, Solomon CM, Levin S, Waternaux CS:  Pursuit eye movements in schizophrenia: Family evidence for specificity . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:136-139.
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Meltzer HY, Umberkoman-Wiita B, Robertson A, Tricou BJ, Lowry M, Perline R:  Effect of 5-hydroxytryptophan on serum cortisol levels in major affective disorders: I. Enhanced response in depression and mania . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:366-374.
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Murphy JM, Sobol AM, Neff RK, Olivier DC, Leighton AH:  Stability of prevalence: Depression and anxiety disorders . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:990-997.
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Jablensky A:  Epidemiological surveys of mental health of geographically defined populations in Europe , in Weissman M, Myers JK, Ross C (eds): Community Surveys in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Studies in Psychosocial Epidemiology . New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1984;, vol 4, in press.

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Uhlenhuth EH, Balter MB, Mellinger GD, Cisin IH, Clinthorne J:  Symptom checklist syndromes in the general population . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1983;;40:1167-1173.
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Murphy JM:  Continuities in community-based psychiatric epidemiology . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1980;;37:1215-1223.
3 +
Regier DA, Goldberg ID, Taube CA:  The de facto US mental health services system . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:685-693.
4 +
Freedman DX:  The President's Commission: Realistic remedies for neglect . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:675-676.
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Robins LN:  Psychiatric epidemiology . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:697-702.
6 +
Weissman MM, Klerman GL:  Epidemiology of mental disorders . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:705-712.
7 +
Adler DA, Levinson DJ, Astrachan BM:  The concept of prevention in psychiatry . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:786-789.
8 +
Spitzer RL, Endicott J, Robins E:  Research diagnostic criteria . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1978;;35:773-782.
9 +
Shepherd M:  Epidemiology and clinical psychiatry . Br J Psychiatry 1978;;133:289-298.
10 +
Karno M, Burnam MA, Escobar JI, Hough RL, Eaton WW:  Development of the Spanish language version of the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1983;;40:1183-1188.
11 +
Wing JK, Mann SA, Leff JP, Nixon JM:  The concept of a "case" in psychiatric population surveys . Psychol Med 1978;;8:203-217.
12 +
Boyd JH, Burke JD Jr, Gruenberg E, Holzer CE III, Rae DS, George LK, Karno M, Stoltzman R, McEvoy L, Nesstadt G:  Exclusion criteria of DSM-III: A study of co-occurrence of hierarchy-free syndromes . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:983-989.
13 +
Leckman JF, Weissman MM, Merikangas KR, Pauls DL, Prusoff BA:  Panic disorder and major depression: Increased risk of depression, alcoholism, panic, and phobic disorders in families of depressed probands with panic disorder . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1983;;40:1055-1060.
14 +
Carey G:  Genetic influences on anxiety neurosis , in Matthew RJ (ed): The Biology of Anxiety . New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1983;, pp 37-50.
15 +
Holzman PS, Solomon CM, Levin S, Waternaux CS:  Pursuit eye movements in schizophrenia: Family evidence for specificity . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:136-139.
16 +
Meltzer HY, Umberkoman-Wiita B, Robertson A, Tricou BJ, Lowry M, Perline R:  Effect of 5-hydroxytryptophan on serum cortisol levels in major affective disorders: I. Enhanced response in depression and mania . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:366-374.
17 +
Murphy JM, Sobol AM, Neff RK, Olivier DC, Leighton AH:  Stability of prevalence: Depression and anxiety disorders . Arch Gen Psychiatry 1984;;41:990-997.
18 +
Jablensky A:  Epidemiological surveys of mental health of geographically defined populations in Europe , in Weissman M, Myers JK, Ross C (eds): Community Surveys in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Studies in Psychosocial Epidemiology . New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1984;, vol 4, in press.

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