Physical educators use behavior modification techniques to reinforce acceptable conduct. (JS)

Parallels between dream states and schizophrenia suggest that the study of dreams may offer some information about schizophrenia. A major theoretical assumption of the research on dreaming and schizophrenia is that, in schizophrenics, the dream state intrudes on the awake state creating a dreamlike symptomatology. This theory, called the REM…

An exploratory study of high-risk mothers' interactions with their infants studied modalities of stimulation; vestibular and auditory. It was hypothesized that stimulation would be lower for non-paranoid than for paranoid types, and than for control mothers. Mothers recruited from inner city gynecological clinics were screened for probable…

The types of egocentric cognition described by Jean Piaget are discussed in relation to schizophrenic thinking. For related articles, see TM 501 288 and 290. (RC)

Four times during a 20-month period 33 schizophrenics were given a psychiatric interview (to ascertain clinical status) and the Rorschach. Subjects not receiving medication showed more evidence of regression and recovery as their clinical status either declined or improved than did subjects receiving medication. (Author)

Imagery and categorization were orthogonally varied in an assessment of recognition and recall of process schizophrenics (process group), reactive schizophrenics (reactive group), and controls (student group). (Editor)

Research supported by Grants MH-10191, MH-12273, and MH-08004 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Presented is research to support the orthomolecular rather than the psychodynamic approach to treating schizophrenia, psychoses, and allied disorders in children. The orthomolecular approach, also known as orthomolecular psychiatry, is reported to involve the administration of megavitamins (following a study to determine biochemical needs),…

Acute schizophrenics with either good or premorbid histories were compared with control groups of undergraduates and sixth-grade children on their sensitivity to syntactic structure in speech perception. (Editor)

In 1974, categorical aid programs administered by the states were replaced by the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. After discussing SSI's provision of income support for the mentally ill, the authors examine the social, psychiatric, and policymaking implications of providing income assistance through SSI to those labeled as…

Follow-up data on 57 schizophrenic patients, including 25 boys and 32 girls between the ages of 7 and 13, was obtained. (Author)

An attempt was made to uncover dysfunctions in any of the mechanisms in selective attention, as well as any unusual allocation policy, which possibly exist in schizophrenia. (Author/RK)

The study examined the expressive communicability (i.e., the amount, fluency, elaboration, clarity, and veracity of voluntarily transmitted information about oneself) and belief systems of 30 hospitalized adult schizophrenics and 30 matched normals. Schizophrenics differed from normals on all measures and the different beliefs predicted expressed…