SIR: Austin et a! (Journal, October 1991, 159, 510— 514) recently presentedtheir meta-analysisof five placebo-controlled trials oflithium augmentation in depressed patients “¿ resistant to a standard trial of an antidepressant―. They concluded that lithium aug mentation had significant efficacy in these patients. However, as the authors acknowledged, while the statistical procedure used t...

Online-/Internet-based psychological therapies for depression – a summarizing report. In the face of the gap between demand of psychotherapy and limited availability internet-based psychological treatments for depression play an increasingly important role in Germany and Austria. Online-/Internet-based treatments can be divided in self-help programs for psychoeducation/ information and internet...

Previous studies ( Bachem and Dushkin, 1932) on the reactions of bacteria to ultraviolet light have demonstrated that these organisms re spond with different sensitivities according to various experimental con ditions. Variables, such as the wave length utilized, the age of the bac terial culture, and the temperature at which the organisms are maintained will all be reflected in the bacterial s...

Some relationships are established between trigonometric quadrature and various classical quadrature formulas. In particular Gauss-Legendre quadrature is shown to be a limiting case of trigonometric quadrature. In an earlier paper [1] it was noted that there exist trigonometric and exponential analogs of Gaussian quadrature formulas. We now extend those results to show several interesting featu...

When William Sargant died in 1988 at the age of 81, he had made his mark on British psychiatry. He had exerted considerable influence on US psychiatry as well. This was especially obvious during a time when physical treatments were hardly the fashion in US psychiatry. As The Times (1988) stated at the time of his death, he had made psychiatry more respectable by keeping it close to the medical ...

Psychopathic personality has always been a conten tious concept, but it continues to be used in clinical practice and research. It also has its contemporary synonyms in the categories of antisocial personality disorder in DSM-III (American Psychiatric Associa tion, 1980) and “¿ personality disorder with pre dominantly asocial or sociopathic manifestations― in ICD—9(World Health Organizati...