Application of the Zung self-rating depression scale to patients before and after introduction to haemodialysis.

abstract：AIM:To examine the effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms on longitudinal changes in the quality of life (QOL) of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:First, we investigated whether neuropsychiatric symptoms at baseline predict changes in the QOL of AD patients over time. Then we examined the associations betwee...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tatsumi H,Nakaaki S,Torii K,Shinagawa Y,Watanabe N,Murata Y,Sato J,Mimura M,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This preliminary study was performed to test the reliability and validity of the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB), developed by the National Institute of Mental Health MATRICS initiative, as an assessment tool in a Japanese-languag...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kaneda Y,Ohmori T,Okahisa Y,Sumiyoshi T,Pu S,Ueoka Y,Takaki M,Nakagome K,Sora I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Several lines of evidence suggest that major depressive disorder is associated with an inflammatory status. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha has been investigated as a potential molecular target in mood disorders. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha exerts its activity through binding to specific cell membrane receptors named a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Grassi-Oliveira R,Brietzke E,Pezzi JC,Lopes RP,Teixeira AL,Bauer ME

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier experiments have suggested impaired auditory perception in patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to investigate auditory discrimination in young adults varying in schizotypal features. Three hundred and forty-nine female adolescent subjects were rated with the Schizotypal Personalit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li CS,Yang YY,Chen MC,Chen WJ,Liu JL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the effects of the bombing on the atomic bomb survivors' mental health, a mental health survey was conducted using a 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and a mail survey on atomic bomb exposure conditions and lifestyle using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 3526 atom...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Honda S,Shibata Y,Mine M,Imamura Y,Tagawa M,Nakane Y,Tomonaga M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to examine psychological/psychopathological characteristics of eating disorders and their subtypes through a combined administration of questionnaires and projective tests. Three questionnaires (Eating Disorder Inventory - 2, Social Adaptation Scale, Southern California University Eating...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mizuta I,Inoue Y,Fukunaga T,Ishi R,Ogawa A,Takeda M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the difference in the perception of family functioning measured on the Family Assessment Device (FAD) by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV diagnoses (i.e. schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder) and by raters (patients and family members). The subjects wer...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Koyama A,Akiyama T,Miyake Y,Kurita H

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inpatients with sleep disturbances in a geriatric hospital received 1 h of exposure to approximately 8000 lx bright light per day for 3 weeks. Polysomnogram was recorded for four female patients. Two (aged 68 and 87 years) were non-demented patients with weak cataracts and the other two (aged 92 and 93 years) were dem...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukuda N,Kobayashi R,Kohsaka M,Honma H,Sasamoto Y,Sakakibara S,Koyama E,Nakamura F,Koyama T

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a longitudinal study to identify risk factors for postpartum depression. At the late phase of pregnancy, 627 pregnant women agreed to take the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Trait (STAIT) test and to remain in the study until 4 months postpartum. At 1, 3 and 4 months postpartum, they took the Edinburgh Pos...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tamaki R,Murata M,Okano T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have introduced behavior therapy as standard in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa and have modified the treatment program. At first, we used Fukamachi's activity restriction therapy (FT), followed by Token economy therapy (TET), which combined token economy with FT. Finally, we have developed Kyoto Prefectural...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okamoto A,Yamashita T,Nagoshi Y,Masui Y,Wada Y,Kashima A,Arii I,Nakamura M,Fukui K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old man was admitted with progressive left hemiparesis and left homonymous hemianopsia of 1 month's duration. During the 2 months before admission, he had suffered from slowly progressive dementia. The diagnosis of right-sided watershed (WS) infarction was made. He exhibited slow progression of dementia and ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hashiguchi S,Mine H,Ide M,Kawachi Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared perceived stress in subgroups of patients defined by vulnerability (high and low) and disorder (somatoform and dissociative). A total of 30 patients each of somatoform and dissociative disorders diagnosed according to the classification of mental and behavioral disorders criteria were assessed wit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Irpati AS,Avasthi A,Sharan P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently a new sustained-release formulation of valproic acid has been developed in Japan. The sustained-release mechanism of the new formulation was different from the conventional formulation. The aim of the present study was to compare the pharmacokinetic characteristics of valproic acid in two sustained-release fo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yasui-Furukori N,Saito M,Nakagami T,Niioka T,Sato Y,Fujii A,Kaneko S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A qualitative tool was recently developed for evaluation of dependency in a demented population. This tool assesses the impact of cognitive impairment on functional status, taking into account disability in both the basic and the instrumental activities of daily living. The purpose of the present paper was t...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Andrieu S,Rive B,Guilhaume C,Kurz X,Scuvée-Moreau J,Grand A,Dresse A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attentional processes play a central role in information selection, which is impaired in schizophrenic patients. In the present study, we attempted to characterize the attentional performance of chronic schizophrenics using a computerized assessment of the multiple components of attentional function. Two comparable sa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Cremasco L,Cappa SF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Recent cognitive neuroscience research shows that noninvasive brain stimulation can modify a wide range of behaviors in healthy people. Such regulation effects on human behaviors provide new insights into the neurobiology of cognitive processes and establish causal brain-behavior relations. Here, we aimed to examin...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Khaleghi A,Pirzad Jahromi G,Zarafshan H,Mostafavi SA,Mohammadi MR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizotypy can be seen as an indicator of a predisposition to schizophrenia. It is possible that schizotypal people have an abnormal self-consciousness, especially with regard to the sense of self-agency. Students were rated using the Schizotypy Traits Questionnaire (STA). They were asked to press a button, which gene...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Asai T,Tanno Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Surgical management and strategies for the supplementary motor area (SMA) epilepsy are described. The following is our preoperative evaluations. The steps include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), interictal dipole tracing (DT), subdural electrodes mapping, measurements of movement-related cortical potenti...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamane F,Muragaki Y,Maruyama T,Okada Y,Iseki H,Ikeda A,Homma I,Hori T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This 12-week open-label study was designed to investigate the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of a direct switch from a conventional depot to long-acting injectable risperidone in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. METHODS:Men or women from 18 to 65 years old with a diagnosis of schizophrenia...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lai YC,Huang MC,Chen CH,Tsai CJ,Pan CH,Chiu CC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Although the association between maternal depression and bonding failure during pregnancy and after delivery has been investigated, the causal relationships remain unclear. METHODS:A total of 751 women (mean [SD] age, 32.1 [4.4] years) completed the Mother-Infant Bonding Questionnaire and the Edinburgh Postnatal D...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ohara M,Okada T,Kubota C,Nakamura Y,Shiino T,Aleksic B,Morikawa M,Yamauchi A,Uno Y,Murase S,Goto S,Kanai A,Masuda T,Ando M,Ozaki N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article demonstrates the clinical application and the efficacy of relaxation techniques in general hospital psychiatry in Japan. During April to December 1993, 20 patients were treated with progressive muscle relaxation and "modified' autogenic training therapies. The targeted symptoms were anxiety attacks...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hosaka T,Yamamoto K,Ikeda K,Taniyama F,Yanagisawa J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of first-admission schizophrenic patients at Jichi Medical School Hospital was investigated to identify outcome predictors of schizophrenia among the symptoms at the time of the first hospitalization. The subjects were 62 schizophrenic patients, 29 females and 33 males, consecutively discharged from the De...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kobayashi T,Kato S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), the intermediate filament protein expressed in astrocytes, plays a key role in many aspects of brain function through communication with neurons or blood vessels. A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), GFAP -250 C/A (rs2070935), is associated with the transcriptional ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takahashi Y,Takeuchi H,Sakai M,Yu Z,Kikuchi Y,Ito F,Matsuoka H,Tanabe O,Yasuda J,Taki Y,Kawashima R,Tomita H

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Most acute psychotic episodes are regarded as indicators of schizophrenia. We developed an algorithm for the treatment of such episodes. In Japan, psychiatrists tend to prescribe two or more neuroleptics at once, but it is thought that using a single neuroleptic is better, and the algorithm we report is based on this ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hayashida M,Nakane Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although atypical antipsychotics have been associated with improvements in cognitive function in schizophrenia, the neurochemical basis for such effects is not well understood. Candidate neurotransmitter systems primarily involve dopamine and serotonin. The current study explored this issue by examining the cognitive ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tyson PJ,Laws KR,Flowers KA,Tyson A,Mortimer AM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hikikomori, a severe form of social withdrawal, has long been observed in Japan mainly among youth and adolescents since around the 1970s, and has been especially highlighted since the late 1990s. Moreover, hikikomori-like cases have recently been reported in many other countries. Hikikomori negatively influences not ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kato TA,Kanba S,Teo AR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Another structure in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) circuit may be the pituitary gland because of the fact that limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis abnormality has been reported in patients with OCD. There has been only one prior study, however, concerning pituitary volumetry, in which the s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Atmaca M,Yildirim H,Ozler S,Koc M,Kara B,Sec S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL1) is an inflammatory cytokine and exerts neurodegenerative effects in the brain. Several studies have indicated that IL1 is likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Recent genetic studies have revealed that the IL1 gene complex (IL,1 alpha, IL1, beta and IL1 receptor antagonist) wa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Watanabe Y,Nunokawa A,Kaneko N,Muratake T,Koizumi M,Someya T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00