Social networks of residents in supportive housing.

One goal of supportive housing is to enlarge and improve the functioning of the social support networks of residents. The networks of a convenience sample of 42 residents were assessed using scales developed by Barrera. The size of the networks (11.

Supportive housing: a consumer evaluation study.

The current debate about how to provide housing for persons with persistent psychiatric disabilities should be informed by empirical information from a variety of sources. Data from a study of 17 residents discharged from Regeneration House Inc., illustrates the value of consumer perceptions in the evaluation of supportive housing.

Methotrexate for systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective analysis of 17 unselected cases.

We report a retrospective study of 17 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who were treated with oral methotrexate given as a mean weekly dose of 8.47 +/- 1.72 mg.

Group psychotherapy in psychiatric residency training.

Residents (n=114) in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto were surveyed in the spring of 1987 about their training in and attitudes about group psychotherapy. Significant interest in group psychotherapy was correlated positively with a perception that one's group psychotherapy training was good, more hours of experience leading groups, a belief in the usefulness of group therapy in one's future practice, and an appreciation of opportunities to refer patients to group therapy. Confidence in one's ability as a group leader and knowledge about group therapy were correlated with the number of hours spent leading groups.

Decreased infections in cardiac transplant recipients on cyclosporine with reduced corticosteroid use.

Fifty patients undergoing orthotopic cardiac transplantation were monitored over 34 months for evidence of infection. Four separate immunosuppressive protocols were used during the course of the study; the most recent protocol (protocol 4) employed significantly lower overall steroid dosages than the earlier protocols (protocols 1,2, and 3). All immunosuppressive regimens used cyclosporine, and azathioprine was added in the last three protocols.

The Cleveland Clinic experience with adrenal cortical carcinoma.

Between 1936 and 1987, 82 patients with adrenal cortical carcinoma were seen at our clinic. Of these patients 49 (72 per cent) have been seen during the last 25 years. A total of 40 patients (48.

Effect of low dose gamma-butyrolactone therapy on forebrain neuronal ischemia in the unrestrained, awake rat.

Low dose gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) therapy alters the natural history of experimental forebrain ischemia in the awake rat. After 30 minutes of four-vessel ischemia, repeated hydrogen cerebral blood flow determinations in awake rats over 72 hours revealed that low dose GBL therapy prevented the development of regional cerebral hyperemia and later the prolonged cerebral hypoperfusion that was experienced by the nontreated controls. Moreover, the low dose GBL-treated group had significantly less neuronal tissue loss than that in comparable brain regions of the nontreated controls.

Early proliferative changes in astrocytes in postischemic noninfarcted rat brain.

Transient cerebral ischemia in rats was produced by permanent occlusion of the vertebral arteries and 30-minute occlusion of the common carotid arteries. This model produces ischemic necrosis of neurons in the corpus striatum, cerebral cortex, and hippocampus; infarcts, with necrosis of neuropil, astrocytes, and blood vessels, are rare. Changes in striatal astrocytes at 40 minutes and 3 hours of reperfusion were evaluated by electron microscopy, and quantitative estimates of increases in cytoplasmic and mitochondrial area were performed.