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Contents of Volume 29 No.| JANUARY 1999 Editorial: Will the novel antipsychotics significantly ameliorate neuropsychological deficits and improve adaptive functioning in schizophrenia? K. A. HAWKINS, S. MOHAMED AND S. W. WOODS Prevalence of suicide ideation and suicide attempts in nine countries M. M. WEISSMAN, R. C. BLAND, G. J. CANINO, S. GREENWALD, H.-G. HWU, P. R. JOYCE, E. G. KARAM, C.-K. LEE, J. LELLOUCH, J.-P. LEPINE, S. C. NEWMAN, M. RUBIO-STIPEC, J. E. WELLS, P. J. WICKRAMARATNE, H.-U. WITTCHEN AND E.-K. YEH Manual-assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT): a randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention with bibliotherapy in the treatment of recurrent deliberate self- harm K. EVANS, P. TYRER, J. CATALAN, U. SCHMIDT, K. DAVIDSON, J. DENT, P. TATA, §. THORNTON, J. BARBER AND S. THOMPSON The North Staffordshire Suicide Study: a case-control study of suicide in one health district A. P. BOARDMAN, A. H. GRIMBALDESTON, C. HANDLEY, P. W. JONES AND S$. WILLMOTT Acute tryptophan depletion in healthy young women with a family history of major affective disorder M. A. ELLENBOGEN, S. N. YOUNG, P. DEAN, R. M. PALMOUR AND C. BENKELFAT Subclinical symptoms in mood disorders: pathophysiological and therapeutic implications G. A. FAVA Abnormal response to negative feedback in depression P. J. SHAH, R. E. O'CARROLL, A. ROGERS, A. P. R. MOFFOOT AND K. P. EBMEIER Cognitive function in depression: a district pattern of frontal impairment in melancholia? M.-P. AUSTIN, P. MITCHELL, K. WILHELM, G. PARKER, I. HICKIE, H. BRODATY, J. CHAN, K. EYERS, M. MILIC AND D. HADZI-PAVLOVIC Post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression among Italian Nazi concentration camp survivors: a controlled study 50 years later A. FAVARO, F. C. RODELLA, G. COLOMBO AND P. SANTONASTASO The onset of common mental disorders in primary care attenders in Harare, Zimbabwe C. TODD, V. PATEL, E. SIMUNYU, F. GWANZURA, W. ACUDA, M. WINSTON AND A. MANN Errorless learning and the cognitive rehabilitation of memory-impaired schizophrenic patients R. E. O'CARROLL, H. H. RUSSELL, S. M. LAWRIE AND E. C. JOHNSTONE The impact of dementia on the detection of depression in elderly subjects from the general population A. PAPASSOTIROPOULOS, R. HEUN AND W. MAIER Can biased symptom perception explain false-alarm choking sensations? 5S. RIETVELD, W. EVERAERD AND I. VANBEEST Confirmatory factor analysis of the Parental Bonding Instrument in a Japanese population T. SATO, T. NARITA, S. HIRANO, K. KUSUNOKI, K. SAKADO AND T. UEHARA The generation of life events in recurrent and non-recurrent depression K. L. HARKNESS, S. M. MONROE, A. D. SIMONS AND M. THASE A date to remember: the nature of memory in savant calendrical calculators L. HEAVEY, L. PRING AND B. HERMELIN Increased automatic spreading activation in healthy subjects with elevated scores in a scale assessing schizophrenic language disturbances $S. MORITZ, B. ANDRESEN, F. DOMIN, T. MARTIN, E. PROBSTHEIN, G. KRETSCHMER, M. KRAUSZ, D. NABER AND M. SPITZER iv Contents HIV-risk behaviour and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among patients with schizophrenia L. GRASSI, M. PAVANATI, R. CARDELLI, S. FERRI AND L. PERON Magnetic resonance imaging differences between dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot study G. T. HARVEY, J. HUGHES, I. G. McKEITH, R. BRIEL, C. BALLARD, A. GHOLKAR, P. SCHELTENS, R. H. PERRY, P. INCE AND J. T. O'BRIEN Immediate memory, attention and communication disturbances in schizophrenia patients and their relatives N.M. DOCHERTY AND S. W. GORDINIER Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale R. G. HEIMBERG, K. J. HORNER, H. R. JUSTER, S. A. SAFREN, E. J. BROWN, F. R. SCHNEIER AND M. R. LEIBOWITZ Conditions not attributable to a mental disorder in Dutch psychiatric out-patients P. SPINHOVEN AND A. J. W. VAN DER DOES Brief communications: The views and outcomes of consenting and non-consenting patients receiving ECT T. J. WHEELDON, C. ROBERTSON, J. M. EAGLES AND I. C. REID Long-term effects of alprazolam on memory: a 3-5 year follow-up of agoraphobia/panic patients C. KILIC, H. V. CURRAN, H. NOSHIRVANI, I. M. MARKS AND M. BASOGLU Panic disorder following torture by suffocation is associated with predominantly respiratory symptoms C. BOUWER AND D. STEIN Book reviews: Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine ©. SHORTER The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology D. BOLTON Preventing Mental Illness: Mental Health Promotion in Primary Care. PERSAUD Mental Health Practice under Managed Care: Vols. 1-6/The Clinician's Guide to Managed Behavioral Care 3. SABIN Acknowledgement to assessors Noticeboard American Journal of Psychiatry Contents September—October 1998 No.2 MARCH _ 1999 Editorial: Chronic fatigue syndrome — mapping the interior M.HOTOPH AND S. WESSELY Unique genetic and environmental determinants of prolonged fatigue: a twin study I. HICKIE, K. KIRK AND N. MARTIN Complex genetic and environmental relationships between psychological distress, fatigue and immune functioning: a twin study 1. HICKIE, B. BENNETT, A. LLOYD, A. HEATH AND N. MARTIN Is disabling fatigue in childhood influenced by genes? A. FARMER, J. SCOURFIELD, N. MARTIN, A. CARDNO AND P. MCGUFFIN Acute fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome patients A. P. SMITH, L. BORYSIEWICZ. J. POLLOCK, M. THOMAS, K. PERRY AND M. LLEWELYN Attentional and mnemonic deficits associated with infectious disease in humans L. CAPURON, D. LAMARQUE, R. DANTZER AND G. GOODALL A population-based twin study in women of smoking initiation and nicotine dependence K. S. KENDLER, M. C. NEALE, P. SULLIVAN, L. A. COREY, C. O. GARDNER AND C. A. PRESCOTT Social fears and social phobia in a community sample of adolescents and young adults prevalence, risk factors and co-morbidity H.-U. WITTCHEN, M. B. STEIN AND R. C. KESSLER Age differences in depression and anxiety symptoms: a structural equation modelling analysis of data from a general population sample H. CHRISTENSEN, A. F. JORM, A. J. MACKINNON, A. E. KORTEN, P. A. JACOMB, A. S$. HENDERSON AND B. ROGERS Sadness in older persons: 13-year follow-up of a community sample in Baltimore, Maryland 5. J. GALLO, P. V. RABINS AND J. C. ANTHONY Contents Mild mental retardation: psychosocial functioning in adulthood B. MAUGHAN, S$. COLLISHAW AND A. PICKLES Gender differences in the effects of bereavement-related psychological distress in health outcomes J. H. CHEN, A. J. BIERHALS, H. G. PRIGERSON, S. V. KASL, C. M. MAZURE AND S. JACOBS Marital status transitions and psychological distress: longitudinal evidence from a national population sample S$. HOPE, B. ROGERS AND C. POWER Psychological influences on the perception of immune function Kk. J. PETRIE, R. J. BOOTH, H. ELDER AND L. D. CAMERON The association of sexual and physical abuse with somatization: characteristics of patients presenting with irritable bowel syndrome and non-epileptic attack disorder J. REILLY, G. A. BAKER, J. RHODES AND P. SALMON Clinical characteristics in patients with anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder H. MATSUNAGA, N. KIRIIKE, Y. IWASAKI, A. MIYATA, S. YAMAGAMI AND W. H. KAYE Performance of children and adolescents with PTSD on the Stroop colour-naming task A. R. MORADI, M. R. TAGHAVI, H. T. NESHAT DOOST, W. YULE AND T. DALGLEISH Anxiety, depression, psychotropic drug use and cognitive impairment S$. PATERNITI, C. DUFOUIL, J.-C. BISSERBE AND A. ALPEROVITCH Ethnic minority suicide: a small area geographical study in south London J. NEELEMAN AND S. WESSELY Capacity to make health care decisions: its importance in clinical practice J. G. WONG, I. C. H. CLARE, M. J. GUNN AND A. J. HOLLAND Apathy and depressed mood in acquired brain damage: relationship to lesion localization and psychophysiological reactivity $. ANDERSSON, J. M. KROGSTAD AND A. FINSET Psychiatric co-morbidity and hospital utilization in the general medical sector £. SAVOCA Risk and dangerousness A. BUCHANAN The first contact of patients with schizophrenia with psychiatric services: social factors and pathways to care in a multi-ethnic population R. BURNETT, R. MALLETT, D. BHUGRA, G. HUTCHINSON, G. DER AND J. LEFF Brief communications: A simple test of copying ability and sex define survival in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease J. J. CLAUS, G. J. M. WALSTRA, P. M. BOSSUYT, S. TEUNISSE AND W. A. VAN GOOL Abstracts of trials presented at the Vth World Congress of Psychiatry (Mexico, 1971): a cohort study K. DIEZEL, F. M. PHAROAH AND C. E. ADAMS Book reviews: The Neuropsychological Handbook, 2nd edn. Vol. 1: Foundations and Assessment/Vol. 2: Treatment Issues and Special Populations 3. G. BEAUMONT Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You 0D. HEALY Review of: The Lifespan of Individuals. Behavioural, Neurobiological and Psychosocial Perspectives. A Synthesis ¥. STANLEY Traumatic Events and Mental Health 1. P. PALMER Schizophrenia from a Neurocognitive Perspective: Probing the Impenetrable Darkness T. WYKES Noticeboard American Journal of Psychiatry Contents November—December 1998 No.3 MAY 1999 Editorial: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults P. SACHDEV Childhood attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults with anxiety disorders C. MANCINI, M. VAN AMERINGEN, J. M. OAKMAN AND D. FIGUEIREDO Executive function and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: stimulant medication and Contents better executive function performance in children s. KEMPTON, A. VANCE, P. MARUFF, E. LUK, J. COSTIN AND C. PANTELIS Fears and phobias: reliability and heritability K.S. KENDLER, L. M. KARKOWSKI AND C. A. PRESCOTT Lifetime co-morbidities between social phobia and mood disorders in the US National Comorbidity Survey R. C. KESSLER, P. STANG, H.-U. WITTCHEN, M. STEIN AND E. E. WALTERS Antecedents of the risk of recovery from DSM-III-R social phobia _ D. J. DEWITT, A. OGBORNE, D. R. OFFORD AND K. MacDONALD Consequences of anxiety in older persons: its effect on disability, well-being and use of health services . DE BEURS, A. T. F. BEEKMAN, A. J. L. M. VAN BALKOM, D. J. H. DEEG, R. VAN DYCK AND W. VAN TILBURG A comparison of the utility of dimensional and categorical representations of psychosis J. VAN OS, C. GILVARRY, R. BALE, E. VAN HORN, T. TATTAN, I. WHITE AND R. MURRAY ON BEHALF OF THE UK700 GROUP Factor analysis of symptoms in schizophrenia: differences between White and Caribbean patients in Camberwell G. HUTCHINSON, N. TAKEI, P. SHAM, I. HARVEY AND R. M. MURRAY How do people with schizophrenia explain the behaviour of others? A study of theory of mind and its relationship to thought and speech disorganization in schizophrenia Y. SARFATI AND M.-C. HARDY-BAYLE Obstetric complications predict treatment response in first-episode schizophrenia J. M. J. ALVIR, M. G. WOERNER, H. GUNDUZ, G. DEGREEF AND J. A. LIEBERMAN Hippocampal /amygdala volumes in geriatric depression M. ASHTARI, B. S. GREENWALD, E. KRAMER-GINSBERG, J. HU, H. WU, M. PATEL, P. AUPPERLE AND S. POLLACK Quantitative proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the bilateral frontal lobes in patients with bipolar disorder H. HAMAKAWA, T. KATO, T. SHIOIRI, T. INUBUSHI AND N. KATO Genetic influences on post-natal depressive symptoms: findings from an Australian twin sample Ss. A. TRELOAR, N. G. MARTIN, K. K. BUCHOLZ, P. A. F. MADDEN AND A. C. HEATH Prevalence, 20-month incidence and outcome of unipolar depressive disorders in a community sample of adolescents A. J. OLDEHINKEL, H.-U. WITTCHEN AND P. SCHUSTER The natural history of somatization in primary care ©. GUREJE AND G. E. SIMON Typologies of anxiety, depression and somatization symptoms among primary care attenders with no formal mental disorder M. PICCINELLI, P. RUCCI, B. USTUN AND G. SIMON The general practitioner as the first contacted health professional by patients with psychosocial problems: a European study W. G. W. BOERMA AND P. F. M. VERHAAK The unhealthy lifestyle of people with schizophrenia $s. BROWN, J. BIRTWISTLE, L. ROE AND C. THOMPSON The survey form of SCAN: the feasibility of using experienced lay survey interviewers to administer a semi-structured systematic clinical assessment of psychotic and non- psychotic disorders T. S. BRUGHA, F. NIENHUIS, D. BAGCHI, J. SMITH AND H. MELTZER Psychosocial adjustment after traumatic brain injury: what are the important variables? R. L. TATE AND G. A. BROE Brief communications: Mood, neuropsychological function and cognitions in premenstrual dysphoric disorder M.S. MAN, I. MACMILLAN, J. SCOTT AND A. H. YOUNG Neuroticism and polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene 1. J. DEARY, S. BATTERSBY, M. C. WHITEMAN, J. M. CONNOR, F. G. R. FOWKES AND A. HARMAR Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love D. MARAZZITI, H. S. AKISKAL, A. ROSSI AND G. B. CASSANO Book reviews: The History of Bethlem T. TURNER Contents Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness G. IKKOS Developmental Psychopathology: Epidemiology, Diagnostics and Treatment C. B. NELSON Suicide: The Tragedy of Hopelessness 3. NEELEMAN Pain Management Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide $8. MORLEY Correspondence Noticeboard American Journal of Psychiatry Contents January-February 1999 No.4 JULY 1999 Conceptual paper: Translating ethical principles into outcome measures for mental health service research G. THORNICROFT AND M. TANSELLA The epidemiology of autism: a review E. FOMBONNE Recall of depressive episode 25 years previously G. ANDREWS, K. ANSTEY, H. BRODATY, C. ISSAKIDIS AND G. LUSCOMBE A randomized controlled trial of individual psychological debriefing for victims of violent crime S. ROSE, C. R. BREWIN, B. ANDREWS AND M. KIRK Relatives’ expressed emotion (EE) and PTSD treatment outcome _N. TARRIER, C. SOMMERFIELD AND H. PILGRIM Vulnerability to assaultive violence: further specification of the sex difference in post- traumatic stress disorder N. BRESLAU, H. D. CHILCOAT, R. C. KESSLER, E. L. PETERSON AND V. C. LUCIA Evaluating psychiatric morbidity in a general hospital: a two-phase epidemiological survey M. MARTUCCI, M. BALESTRIERI, G. BISOFFI, P. BONIZZATO, M. G. COVRE, L. CUNICO, M. DE FRANCESO, M. G. MARINONI, C. MOSCIARO, M. PICCINELLI, L. VACCARI AND M. TANSELLA Training primary-care physicians to recognize, diagnose and manage depression: does it improve patient outcomes? B. G. TIEMENS, J. ORMEL, J. A. JENNER, K. VAN DER MEER, T. W. D. P. VAN OS, R. H. S. VAN DEN BRINK, A. SMIT AND W. VAN DEN BRINK Onset of disability in depressed and non-depressed primary care patients J. ORMEL, M. VONKORFF, A. J. OLDEHINKEL, G. SIMON, B. G. TIEMENS AND T. B. USTUN The temporal stability and co-morbidity of prolonged fatigue: a longitudinal study in primary care 1. HICKIE, A. KOSCHERA, D. HADZI-PAVLOVIC, B. BENNETT AND A. LLOYD Fatigue and psychiatric disorder: different or the same? G. VAN DER LINDEN, T. CHALDER, I. HICKIE, A. KOSCHERA, P. SHAM AND S. WESSELY The Range of Impaired Functioning Tool (LIFE-RIFT): a brief measure of functional impairment A. C. LEON, D. A. SOLOMON, T. I. MUELLER, C. L. TURVEY, J. ENDICOTT AND M. B. KELLER Scales to measure dimensions of hallucinations and delusions: the psychotic symptom rating scales (PSYRATS) G. HADDOCK, J. MCCARRON, N. TARRIER AND E. B. FARAGHER Reliability of the Salford Needs Assessment Schedule for Adolescents L. KROLL, A. WOODHAM, J. ROTHWELL, S. BAILEY, C. TOBIAS, R. HARRINGTON AND M. MARSHALL Source monitoring deficits in patients with schizophrenia: a multinomial modelling analysis R. S. E. KEEFE, M. C. ARNOLD, U. J. BAYEN AND P. D. HARVEY Duration of illness and structure of symptoms in schizophrenia R. MOJTABAI The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for three measures of disordered eating T. WADE, N. G. MARTIN, M. C. NEALE, M. TIGGEMANN, S. A. TRELOAR, K. K. BUCHOLZ, P. A. F. MADDEN AND A. C. HEATH History of childhood sexual or physical abuse in Japanese patients with eating disorders: Vill Contents relationship with dissociation and impulsive behaviours T. NAGATA, N. KIRIIKE, T. IKETANI, Y. KAWARADA AND H. TANAKA The relationship among three models of personality psychopathology: DSM-III-R personality disorder, TCI scores and DSQ defences R. T. MULDER, P. R. JOYCE, P. F. SULLIVAN, C. M. BULIK AND F. A. CARTER Criminality and antisocial behaviour in unselected men with sex chromosome abnormalities M. J. GOTZ, E. C. JOHNSTONE AND S. G. RATCLIFFE Mid-sagittal anatomy in late-onset schizophrenia P.S. SACHDEV AND H. BRODATY Enhanced corticotropin response to corticotropin-releasing hormone as a predictor of mania in euthymic bipolar patients £. VIETA, M. J. MARTINEZ-DE-OSABA, F. COLOM, A. MARTINEZ-ARAN, A. BENABARRE AND C. GASTO The relationship between depression and mortality in elderly subjects with less severe dementia 4. G. E. JANZING, J. M. P. BOUWENS, R. J. TEUNISSE, M. A. VAN’T HOF AND F. G. ZITMAN Brief communications: An assessment of the Standardized Assessment of Personality as a screening instrument for the International Personality Disorder Examination: a comparison of informant and patient assessment for personality disorder A. H. MANN, P. RAVEN, J. PILGRIM, S. KHANNA, A. VELAYUDHAM, K. P. SURESH, S$. M. CHANNABASAVANNA, A. JANCA AND N. SARTORIUS Mother-infant interaction in post-partum women with schizophrenia and affective disorders D. RIORDAN, L. APPLEBY AND B. FARAGHER Reduced activation and altered laterality in two neuroleptic-naive catatonic patients during a motor task in functional MRI G. NORTHOFF, D. F. BRAUS, A. SARTORIUS, D. KHORAM-SEFAT, M. RUSS, J. ECKERT, M. HERRIG, A. LESCHINGER, B. BOGERTS AND F. A. HENN Book reviews: The Antidepressant Era/ Antidepressant Therapy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium 1. ANDERSON The Health Services Since the War. Volume II. Government and Health Care: The British National Health Service 1958-1979 HH. FREEMAN Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes P. LEVINE Child Homicide S$. BAILEY The Management of Depression ®. PEVELER American Journal of Psychiatry Contents March-April 1999 No.5 SEPTEMBER 1999 Editorials: A difference that matters: comparisons of structured and semi-structured psychiatric diagnostic interviews in the general population §T. s. BRUGHA, P. E. BEBBINGTON AND R. JENKINS Diagnosing mental disorders in the community. A difference that matters? H.-U. WITTCHEN, T. B. USTUN AND R. C. KESSLER Cross validation of a general population survey diagnostic interview: a comparison of CIS-R with SCAN ICD-10 diagnostic categories 1. S. BRUGHA, P. E. BEBBINGTON, R. JENKINS, H. MELTZER, N. A. TAUB, M. JANAS AND J. VERNON Pubertal changes in hormone levels and depression in girls A. ANGOLD, E. J. COSTELLO, A. ERKANLI AND C. M. WORTHMAN Early risk factors and adult person-environment relationships in affective disorder J. VAN OS AND P. B. JONES Genetic differences in alcohol sensitivity and the inheritance of alcoholism risk A. C. HEATH, P. A. F. MADDEN, K. K. BUCHOLZ, S. H. DINWIDDIE, W. S. SLUTSKE, L. J. BIERUT, J. W. ROHRBAUGH, D. J. STATHAM, M. P. DUNNE, J. B. WHITFIELD AND N. G. MARTIN Contents Stimulation of the noradrenergic system enhances and blockade reduces memory for emotional material in man_R. E. O'CARROLL, E. DRYSDALE, L. CAHILL, P. SHAJAHAN AND K. P. EBMEIER The Thought Control Questionnaire — psychometric properties in a clinical sample, and relationships with PTSD and depression M. REYNOLDS AND A. WELLS Neuroticism and self-esteem as indices of the vulnerability to major depression in women S$. B. ROBERTS AND K. S. KENDLER The impact of widowhood on depression: findings from a prospective survey K. B. CARNELLEY, C. B. WORTMAN AND R. C. KESSLER Attempted suicide in west London, I. Rates across ethnic communities D. BHUGRA, M. DESAI AND D. S. BALDWIN Attempted suicide in west London, II. Inter-group comparisons D. BHUGRA, D. S. BALDWIN, M. DESAI AND K. S. JACOB Suicide and undetermined death in south east Scotland. A case-control study using the psychological autopsy method J. T. 0. CAVANAGH, D. G. C. OWENS AND E. C. JOHNSTONE The prevalence of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in children and adolescents with autism: a large scale study S. BARON-COHEN, V. L. SCAHILL, J. IZAGUIRRE, H. HORNSEY AND M. M. ROBERTON Neuropsychological assessment of young people at high genetic risk for developing schizophrenia compared with controls: preliminary findings of the Edinburgh High Risk Study (EHRS) M. BYRNE, A. HODGES, E. GRANT, D. C. OWENS AND E. C. JOHNSTONE Different psychopathological models and quantified EEG in schizophrenia A. W. F. HARRIS, L. WILLIAMS, E. GORDON, H. BAHRAMALI AND S. SLEWA-YOUNAN To what extent does symptomatic improvement result in better outcome in psychotic illness? J. VAN OS, C. GILVARRY, R. BALE, E. VAN HORN, T. TATTAN, I. WHITE, R. MURRAY, ON BEHALF OF THE UK700 GROUP Urbanization and risk for schizophrenia: does the effect operate before or around the time of illness onset? M. MARCELIS, N. TAKEI AND J. VAN OS Frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neuropsychiatric features C. A. GREGORY Cognitive reserve and mortality in dementia: the role of cognition, functional ability and depression M. I. GEERLINGS, D. J. H. DEEG, B. W. J. H. PENNINX, B. SCHMAND, C. JONKER, L. M. BOUTER AND W. VAN TILBURG Impairment of olfactory identification in obsessive-compulsive disorder R. BARNETT, P. MARUFF, R. PURCELL, K. WAINWRIGHT, M. KYRIOS, W. BREWER AND C. PANTELIS Brief communications: Socio-economic factors that predict psychiatric admissions at a local level S. KOPPEL AND P. MCGUFFIN The association between the high interpersonal sensitivity type of personality and a lifetime history of depression in a sample of employed Japanese adults kK. SAKADO, T. SATO, T. UEHARA, M. SAKADO, H. KUARBARA AND T. SOMEYA Bipolar disorder and the serotonin transporter gene: a family-based association study G. KIROV, M. REES, I. JONES, F. MacCCANDLESS, M. J. OWEN AND N. CRADDOCK Book reviews: Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing €. 3. AUSTIN Genius and the Mind: Studies of Creativity and Temperament 5. FREEMAN Psychiatry for the Developing World ®. ARAYA American Journal of Psychiatry Contents May-June 1999 No.6 NOVEMBER 1999 Editorial: Molecular genetics in psychiatric epidemiology: the promise and challenge A. S. HENDERSON AND D. H. R. BLACKWOOD Contents The efficacy of drug treatments for dysthymia: a systematic review and meta-analysis M. S. DE LIMA, M. HOTOPH AND S. WESSELY Sibling aggregation for psychiatric disorders in offspring at high and low risk for depression: 10-year follow-up R. RENDE, V. WARNER, P. WICKRAMARANTE AND M. M. WEISSMAN Partners in life and in death: the suicide pact in England and Wales 1988-1992 M. BROWN AND B. BARRACLOUGH Emotional bias and inhibitory control processes in mania and depression F. C. MURPHY, B. J. SAHAKIAN, J. S. RUBINSZTEIN, A. MICHAEL, R. D. ROGERS, T. W. ROBBINS AND E. S. PAYKEL Responses to depression in unipolar depressed patients: an investigation of Nolen- Hoeksema’s response styles theory C. KUEHNER AND I. WEBER The Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC) Scale: replication and refinement in 632 breast cancer patients R. H. OSBORNE, G. R. ELSWORTH, D. W. KISSANE, S. A. BURKE AND J. L. HOPPER Psychosocial and health belief variables associated with frequent attendance in primary care J. A. BELLON, A. DELGADO, J. DE DIOS LUNA AND P. LARDELLI Stress-induced breathlessness in asthma S$. RIETVELD, I. VAN BEEST AND W. EVERAERD Assessing the ability of people with a learning disability to give informed consent to treatment K.ARSCOTT, D. DAGNAN AND B. STENFERT KROESE Abnormalities of internally generated saccades in obsessive-compulsive disorder P. MARUFF, R. PURCELL, P. TYLER, C. PANTELIS AND J. CURRIE Substance use disorders among adolescents in Taiwan: prevalence, sociodemographic and psychiatric co-morbidity M.-Y. CHONG, K.-W. CHAN AND A. T. A. CHENG Autobiographical memory and dissociation in borderline personality disorder B. JONES, H. HEARD, M. STARTUP, M. SWALES, J. M. G. WILLIAMS AND R. S. P. JONES Can children with autistic spectrum disorders perceive affect in music? An experimental investigation P. HEATON, B. HERMELIN AND L. PRING Job strain and psychiatric morbidity M. CROPLEY, A. STEPTOE AND K. JOEKES Value of the initial stimulus dose in right unilateral and bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy P. HEIKMAN, A. TUUNAINEN AND K. KUOPPASALMI Recovery rates in generalized anxiety disorder following psychological therapy: an analysis of clinically significant change in the STAI-T across outcome studies since 1990 _P. L. FISHER AND R. C. DURHAM Biological rhythm disturbance in depression: temporal coherence of ultradian sleep EEG rhythms R. ARMITAGE, R. F. HOFFMANN AND A. J. RUSH Brief communications: Adjacent genetic markers on chromosome |1p15.5 at or near the tyrosine hydroxylase locus that show population linkage disequilibrium with each other do not show allelic association with bipolar affective disorder A. MCQUILLIN, J. LAWRENCE, D. CURTIS, G. KALSI, C. SMYTH, S. HANNESDOTTIR AND H. GURLING The assessment of dependence in the study of stressful life events: validation using a twin design K.S. KENDLER, L. M. KARKOWSKI AND C. A. PRESCOTT The prevalence of sleep-related eating disorder in psychiatric and non-psychiatric populations J. W. WINKELMAN, D. B. HERZOG AND M. FAVA Book reviews: Perceptions of Health and lilness: Current Research and Applications P. H. DITTO The Case of Jason Mitchell: Report of the Independent Panel of Inquiry/ I nquiries after Homicide /R eport of the Inquiry into the Treatment and Care of Gilbert Kopernick- Steckel A. MADEN Disordered Personalities: A Pri/mA sseessrmen t and Diagnosis of Personality Disorders: The ICD-10 International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) 5. TILLER Contents Anxiety/ Panic Disorder: Clinical Diagnosis, Management and Mechanisms/The Anxiety Disorders 3. SCOTT On the History of Lunacy: The 19th Century and After D. CASTLE Noticeboard American Journal of Psychiatry Contents July-August 1999 INDEX TO VOLUME 29 INDEX OF BOOK REVIEWS