Incidental paranasal sinusitis on routine brain magnetic resonance scans: association with atherosclerosis.

Background: Incidental paranasal sinusitis (IPS) is common on imaging for non-sinusitis disorders, usually without symptoms or obstructive features, and possibly arising from periodontitis (PD). PD associations with atherosclerosis have been widely reported. We test if IPS may also be associated with atherosclerosis.

Depressive symptomatology and dexamethasone suppression test in preschool age children.

The association between depressive symptomatology and failure of cortisol suppression following dexamethasone administration is explored in a preschool age tertiary care psychiatric population. Clinical research investigation of 16 preschoolers, including 13 inpatients and three outpatients, indicates that a broad range of DSM-III depressive symptomatology can be identified in this population. Seven patients had a serum cortisol value greater than 5 micrograms/dl following 1 mg dexamethasone and six of these had diagnoses within the depressive spectrum.

Holocaust effect in the third generation: child of another time.

This case report aims to make psychiatrists aware of the need for a "psychohistorical" approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients who are the third generation of the holocaust, and identify the nature of the multigenerational processes within such a family.

Short-term family therapy and pathological grief resolution with children and adolescents.

This paper describes the use of short-term family therapy as a new modality for resolution of pathological grief with young children and adolescents. These families' experience with other modalities of therapy had been disappointing. The unusual cohesiveness of the family was evidenced by resistance to actual or threatened separation.