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Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use , Pancreas Transplantation/immunology , Adult , Antilymphocyte Serum/therapeutic use , Azathioprine/therapeutic use , Communicable Diseases/epidemiology , Creatinine/blood , Cyclosporine/blood , Cyclosporine/therapeutic use , Drug Resistance , Drug Therapy, Combination , Female , Graft Rejection/diagnosis , Graft Rejection/drug therapy , Graft Rejection/epidemiology , Humans , Male , Methylprednisolone/therapeutic use , Postoperative Complications/epidemiology , Prednisolone/therapeutic use , ReoperationABSTRACT
Zuclopenthixol acetate--a new injectable formulation with a duration of action of 2-3 days--was compared with conventional intramuscular and oral formulations of haloperidol and zuclopenthixol in the initial treatment of acutely disturbed, psychotic patients. The patients were stratified into 3 diagnostic categories: acute psychoses (48 patients), mania (22 patients), and exacerbation of chronic psychoses (73 patients). The patients were rated on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Rating Scale (BRMAS) (only manic patients) and globally on the Clinical Global Impression (CGI). The study was an open, randomized multicentre trial with a 6-day treatment period. The zuclopenthixol acetate patients received 1-4 doses, the haloperidol patients 1-26 and the zuclopenthixol patients 1-22 doses. The assessments on the CGI showed that all 3 treatments caused a clear reduction of the severity of illness scores in all 3 diagnostic categories, with no differences between treatments. The ratings of the acute and chronic psychotic patients on the BPRS also showed significant reductions in scores with no differences between treatments. All 3 treatments caused a rapid remission of symptoms on the BRMAS. Haloperidol induced hypokinesia in significantly more patients than zuclopenthixol acetate after 24 h. Later there were no significant differences between treatments. Zuclopenthixol acetate fulfils many desires for an amended neuroleptic formulation for the initial treatment of acutely disturbed psychotic patients.
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Antipsychotic Agents/therapeutic use , Clopenthixol/analogs & derivatives , Clopenthixol/therapeutic use , Haloperidol/therapeutic use , Psychotic Disorders/drug therapy , Acute Disease , Adult , Analysis of Variance , Antipsychotic Agents/adverse effects , Clopenthixol/adverse effects , Delayed-Action Preparations , Female , Haloperidol/adverse effects , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Oils , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Psychotic Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
For 21 boys and 24 girls in a middle-class kindergarten no differences in Identification of Body Parts, Copy Forms, or Motor Skills Test of the Rosner-Richman Perceptual Survey were noted. Scores increased from September to May testing on copying and motor skills, e.g., walking a rail, balancing, handling balls, as expected.
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Child Development , Motor Skills , Visual Perception , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , ReadingABSTRACT
High school students aged 15 through 19 years (N = 116) were administered three Piagetian type tasks (conservation of weight, paper and pencil tests of concrete-operational reasoning and formal-operational reasoning) and a measure of spatial relations (the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test). While a path analysis showed there were logically expected relationships among the tasks, neither sex differences nor age differences were found on any of the measures.
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Adolescent , Space Perception , Female , Humans , Male , Problem Solving , Psychological Tests , Sex Factors , Weight PerceptionABSTRACT
Visual perceptual abilities of 47 institutionalized trainable retarded subjects were compared on selected measures of visual perception. Significant relationships were found between the Developmental Test of Visual Perception and the Matching and Copying subtests of the Metropolitan Readiness Test. Only moderate correlations were found between these two subtests and Motor-free Visual Perception Test.
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Intellectual Disability/psychology , Psychological Tests , Visual Perception , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Education of Intellectually Disabled , Female , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Deafness/psychology , Weight Perception , Adolescent , Age Factors , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Weight Perception , Adolescent , Child , Female , Humans , Intelligence , MaleSubject(s)
Achievement , Motor Skills , Teaching , Visual Perception , Child , Child, Preschool , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , ReadingABSTRACT
The effect of cross-cultural factors in the acquisition of conservation of weight in adolescents and young adults was assessed. No significant differences were found between 25 Zambian female subjects and two control groups of U. S. high school (n = 52) and university female subjects (n = 34).
