Changes in sleep-wake cycle during the period from late pregnancy to puerperium identified through the wrist actigraph and sleep logs.

abstract：:A high disease burden of mental disorders has been noted worldwide, including Japan. It is important to monitor mental disorder prevalence trends and the use of mental health services over time using epidemiological data and to plan appropriate policies and measures that consider mental health in each country. This re...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nishi D,Ishikawa H,Kawakami N

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate mutual interactions between neuronal discharges in the mesencepahlic reticular formation, relative power contributions (RPC) were estimated during sleep-wake cycles and serotonin (5HT)-depleted conditions by the administration of parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA). The RPC for most of the neurons d...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kodama T,Honda Y,Nakao M,Sato S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Oxidative stress has gained attention recently in psychiatric medicine and has been reported to be associated with various diseases. However, the psychosocial factors involved in oxidative stress are still not well understood. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether anxiety levels and neuroticism were a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsushita M,Kumano-Go T,Suganuma N,Adachi H,Yamamura S,Morishima H,Shigedo Y,Mikami A,Takeda M,Sugita Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In Japan, a new comprehensive forensic mental health service was established and enforced in 2005. However, the shortage of psychiatrists dedicated to this service is a problem. Therefore, we investigated the attitudes of general psychiatrists in Japan toward this field in order to develop measures for dealing with...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Haraguchi T,Fujisaki M,Shiina A,Igarashi Y,Okamura N,Fukami G,Shiraishi T,Nakazato M,Iyo M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:An increasing number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted to uncover the pathophysiology of attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The findings are inconsistent, however, at least partially due to methodological differences. In the present study voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to evaluate br...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Sasayama D,Hayashida A,Yamasue H,Harada Y,Kaneko T,Kasai K,Washizuka S,Amano N

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The present study was designed to investigate quality of life (QOL) among caregivers of cancer inpatients, and to explore the related factors with the long-term goal to improve QOL of cancer caregivers in China. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was performed during the period January-March 2008. Subjects comprised...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lu L,Pan B,Sun W,Cheng L,Chi T,Wang L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that various perceptual abnormalities exist in autism. However, because perceptual phenomena are intersubjective, a phenomenological approach is required for getting hold of the reality of the modes of perception involved in autism. From this standpoint, the author has proposed the concept of 'percept...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kobayashi R

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary study on the Noh mask test for analysis of recognition of facial expression was performed. The present study was conducted on 15 normal subjects (mean age: 32 years, SD 9.7 years) as the first step to test for the differences between psychiatric patients and normal subjects. Stimuli were created by photo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Minoshita S,Satoh S,Morita N,Tagawa A,Kikuchi T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author's goal was to investigate the effects of surgical treatment on psychophysiological measurements in 17 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and also to clarify the improvement process of each evaluation. Given the changes in respiratory disturbance and sleep architecture, it was obvious that...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamadera W

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the possible effectiveness of the juvenile version of the Serigaya Methamphetamine Relapse Prevention Program (SMARPP-Jr.) self-teaching workbook we developed for relapse prevention of drug abuse depends on the severity of the subject's drug-related problems....

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto T,Chiba Y,Imamura F,Kobayashi O,Wada K

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uses of lorazepam and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have been proven to be effective in treating catatonia. In the present study a modified treatment strategy (i.e. lorazepam i.m. injection or diazepam infused i.v. if lorazepam failed, not with ECT) was proposed to rapidly relieve catatonic signs in patients wit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Huang TL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of serotonin syndrome was determined by two different diagnostic criteria during clomipramine monotherapy. Incidence, determined by Sternbach's criteria, was 12.1% (8/66 patients), and that determined by the criteria of Dursun et al. was 3.0% (2/66 patients). The two patients who met the latter criteria also...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kudo K,Sasaki I,Tsuchiyama K,Akiyoshi J,Nagayama H,Fujii I

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is implicated in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A recent study found a rare non-synonymous OXTR gene variation, rs35062132 (R376G), associated with ASD in a Japanese population. In order to investigate the association between rare non-synonymous OXTR variations ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Egawa J,Watanabe Y,Shibuya M,Endo T,Sugimoto A,Igeta H,Nunokawa A,Inoue E,Someya T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper describes a 1-year follow-up of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and depression in an elderly minority population who experienced Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. METHODS:The PTSD Symptom Scale--Interview and the 10-item short form Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale were u...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chen YL,Hsu WY,Lai CS,Tang TC,Wang PW,Yeh YC,Huang MF,Yen CF,Chen CS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Issues related to recovery of quality of life (QoL) in depressive outpatients have been raised. This descriptive correlation study investigated QoL in depressive outpatients in Taiwan. A total of 181 depressive outpatients participated in the study. Their QoL levels were measured using the Taiwanese version of the Sho...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Sung SC,Yeh MY

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to identify the characteristics of temperament and character in personality disorder symptoms in the young male general population. A total of 585 male subjects from the same community were included in the study (mean age, 19.06 +/- 0.26 years). There was no difference in socioeconomic...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ha JH,Kim EJ,Abbey SE,Kim TS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the epileptic patients who were treated for > or = 5 years until the end of 1990 and had more than four seizures in 1990, 63 patients had been treated without interruption until the end of 1995. We analyzed their clinical courses from 1990 to 1995 prospectively. More than half the subjects were diagnosed with tempo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Wada K,Kiryu K,Kawata Y,Chiba T,Mizuno K,Okada M,Tasaki H,Fukushima Y,Saito F,Kaneko S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P300 amplitude reduction in schizophrenia is, according to previous studies, partially recovered by treatment with neuroleptics. However, whether this medication-induced P300 recovery is associated with duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) remains unreported; the present study is a preliminary examination of this que...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Wang J,Hirayasu Y,Hokama H,Tanaka S,Kondo T,Zhang M,Xiao Z

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the differences between the results of an automatic sleep analysis system and inspection decision. Subjects were 10 males (average age 21.6 years). One section consists of 20 s records. The sections that deviated from the algorithm could not be decided. Each sleep stage decided by automatic analysis was co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hashizume Y,Kuwahara H,Uchimura N,Mukai M,Shirakawa S,Satomura T,Takeuchi N,Tanaka J,Maeda H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether bright light therapy (BLT) is an effective and safe treatment for manic/depressive symptoms and a preventive measure for recurrent mood episodes in patients with bipolar disorder. METHODS:A literature search of major electronic databases was conducted in J...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takeshima M,Utsumi T,Aoki Y,Wang Z,Suzuki M,Okajima I,Watanabe N,Watanabe K,Takaesu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic concepts of taijin-kyofu-sho (TKS) and social phobia, by comparing the clinical diagnosis of TKS and the operational diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd edition, revised; DSM-III-R). Three evaluators conducted s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura K,Kitanishi K,Miyake Y,Hashimoto K,Kubota M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the differences in the remission rate, recovery rate, functional improvement, and treatment adherence related to treatment with short-acting immediate-release methylphenidate (IR-MPH) and long-acting osmotic-release oral system-methylphenidate (OROS-MPH) in a naturalistic setting among Taiwanese childr...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tzang RF,Wang YC,Yeh CB,Hsu CD,Liang HY,Yang PC,Liu HJ,Huang YS,Cheng H,Hsu YC,Liu SI,Pan CH,Huang YF,Huang CF,Wu YY,Huang YH,Liu HC,Chang HL

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Although peripheral low-grade inflammation and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels have been implicated in schizophrenia (SCZ), the interactions between them remain to be fully revealed. We aimed to compare BDNF and cytokines in patients with SCZ and healthy controls (HC). Additionally, we aimed to inve...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Zhou Y,Peng W,Wang J,Zhou W,Zhou Y,Ying B

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of our study was to understand the geographic characteristics of Japanese communities and the impact of these characteristics on suicide rates. METHODS:We calculated the standardized mortality ratio from suicide statistics of 3318 municipalities from 1972 to 2002. Correlation analysis, multi-regression ana...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Oka M,Kubota T,Tsubaki H,Yamauchi K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All night polysomnographic evaluation (PSG) soon after admission and at the late period of admission revealed an atypically high sleep efficiency and a prolonged total sleep time. Sleep onset latency and distribution of REM and NREM sleep stages were like those of normal sleepers. On REM latency, while it was remarkab...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yoshikawa N,Suzuki S,Ishimoto T,Matsumoto M,Miyagishi T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open-system social skills training (SST) was performed in an open psychiatric ward of the hospital of Yokohama City University. Between June 1998 and March 2000, 223 patients were being treated for various mental disorders and 136 of these patients voluntarily participated in the open-system SST at least once. The SST...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takahashi M,Kosaka K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We investigated preclinical abnormalities as revealed by transcranial sonography (TCS) in patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) compared with those revealed in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) or Parkinson's disease (PD) and in normal controls. METHODS:Twenty-two pat...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li X,Xue S,Jia S,Zhou Z,Qiao Y,Hou C,Wei K,Zheng W,Rong P,Jiao J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we applied the Zung self-rating depression scale (SDS) to 19 renal failure patients who were introduced to haemodialysis in the Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan. The patients were divided into two groups: the emergent introduction (EI) group, who underwent unanticipated and sudden in...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Miura H,Kitagami T,Ohta T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many reports of adolescents with periodic episodes, each followed by complete remission within 2 weeks; however, the nosology and long-term prognosis of such cases have not been elucidated. A prospective follow-up study on 11 cases (nine girls and two boys) who met predetermined criteria is reported. The fir...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Abe K,Ohta M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Alterations in cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) levels are thought to play a role in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of serum cortisol and DHEA-S in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. METHODS:Sixty...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yıldırım O,Dogan O,Semiz M,Kilicli F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00