Melatonin therapy for REM sleep behavior disorder.

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：:Abnormal processing of facial expressions is assumed to be an important factor mediating the course of depression. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ability to disengage attention from facial emotion in depressed patients in the course of an inpatient treatment program. It was hypothesized that in de...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Karparova SP,Kersting A,Suslow T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to clarify the differences in clinical implications between wrist- and arm-cutting. Subjects were 201 delinquent adolescents (178 males and 23 females) who had been admitted to a detention center from February to March 2003. A self-reporting questionnaire and the Adolescent Dissociative Exp...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto T,Yamaguchi A,Chiba Y,Asami T,Iseki E,Hirayasu Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is currently diagnosed based solely on classic psychological and behavioral symptoms, a growing body of evidence has highlighted a link between this disorder and alterations in the immune and inflammatory systems. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that PTSD is associ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hori H,Kim Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the hypnotic effects of 10 mg melatonin and placebo, which were administered at 10.00 h, according to a single-blind crossover design, on an 8-h diurnal sleep from 11.00 to 19.00 h, following a full night of sleep. The subjects were six healthy male students, each of whom underwent polysomnogra...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kraepelin's system of mental diseases has contributed substantially to the foundation of modern psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV and ICD-10. Considering Kraepelin's influence in the creation of these diagnostic tools, the question arises as to how Kraepelin's contemporaries and successors reacted to his nosology. H...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Palm U,Möller HJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiepileptic drugs (AED) were discontinued in 55 epileptics who had been free from seizures treated with AED, in accordance with the following criteria and procedures. (i) A reduction in AED commences when patients have been free from seizures for at least 2 years and epileptic discharges have also disappeared in rep...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakazawa Y,Ishida S,Maeda H,Sakurai S,Motooka H

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:We report two cases of transient global amnesia (TGA) diagnosed using a clinical criteria and single photon emission tomography (SPECT) with the aid of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). Both patients underwent an initial SPECT study about 20 h after the disappearance of the amnesic episode, and a second study 3 we...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Asada T,Matsuda H,Morooka T,Nakano S,Kimura M,Uno M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of acute haloperidol administration on Fos protein expression was examined immunohistochemically in discrete regions of the rat brain. Male Wistar rats were injected subcutaneously (s.c.) with 0.1, 0.25, or 1.0 mg/kg of haloperidol. Two h after the injection, the rats were perfused, and the numbers of Fos i...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Suzuki M,Sun YJ,Murata M,Kurachi M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress caused by adverse and demanding conditions, a risk factor for mental illnesses, induces adaptive or maladaptive neural and behavioral consequences, depending on the conditions. Studies using rodent stress models have revealed multiple mechanisms related to dopamine and inflammation for stress-induced neural and...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Furuyashiki T,Kitaoka S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to test specific hypotheses regarding volumetric changes of the neocortex between 10 female trichotillomania (TTM) subjects and 10 female normal controls. A standard three-dimensional (3-D) brain coordinate system was imposed over each newly acquired native magnetic resonance imagi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Grachev ID

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on the morbidity of paranoid schizophrenic patients were assessed by positron emission tomography (PET) and plasma biochemistry studies before and after ECT. The present study included five patients whose average age was 41.4 years. The average duration of illnes...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Uesugi H,Toyoda J,Iio M

更新日期：1995-05-01 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:This study examined catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) DNA methylation in the peripheral blood of schizophrenia patients and also in healthy controls to investigate its potential use as a peripheral biomarker of schizophrenia and its relations with the clinical variables of schizophrenia patients. METHODS:We exam...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nour El Huda AR,Norsidah KZ,Nabil Fikri MR,Hanisah MN,Kartini A,Norlelawati AT

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence to date on the relation between the risk of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) and antipsychotic agents derives primarily from observational and case history studies. While an increased risk of VTE has been associated with first-generation low-potency antipsychotic agents, particularly clozapine, there a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Masopust J,Malý R,Vališ M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA may play a role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. A recent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies indicated a significant association between schizophrenia and a common intronic variation in MIR137HG (microRNA 137 host gene) encoding the primary microRNA-137. To explore additional risk variat...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Egawa J,Nunokawa A,Shibuya M,Watanabe Y,Kaneko N,Igeta H,Someya T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 71-year-old woman with an 11-year history of slowly progressive decline of motor speech. Normal clinical investigations including routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7, 8 and 10 years after the onset of speech dysfunction led to the suggestion of a psychogenic disorder. Extensive clini...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tebartz van Elst LH,Juengling FD,Kassubek J,Schmidtke K,Thiel T,Ebert D,Dykierek P,Hüll M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depression is highly prevalent among HIV-positive patients (HIVpp). The prevalence of depression ranges between 18% and 81%, depending on the population studied and the methodology of the study. The etiology of depression in HIVpp is likely determined by: (i) biological factors (alterations in the white matter s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Arseniou S,Arvaniti A,Samakouri M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the dual purpose of protecting the human rights of mentally disordered persons and promoting their social rehabilitation, the newly revised Mental Health Law was enacted in July 1987. It has brought significant change in that it has shifted Japanese mental health care from a hospital-based to a community-based sy...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawasaki T

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency and type of psychological problems of outpatients in general healthcare settings, the recognition and management of those problems by physicians, and the course of the problems were investigated using a two-stage sampling design method. The subjects were outpatients visiting the department of internal me...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Utsunomiya H,Yoshitake K,Otsuka T,Sugasakl H,Sata M,Hatada K,Nakane Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the catchment area of Matsumoto Public Health Center in Japan, 44 schizophrenic patients admitted between April 1992 and March 1997 under the national policy Involuntary Hospitalization Ordered by Prefectural Governor (IHOPG) were compared with 61 schizophrenic patients admitted under another policy, Hospitalizatio...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hattori I,Higashi T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most women experience sleep changes across the menstrual cycle. We applied the ultra-short sleep-wake schedule to healthy females to compare their 24-h sleep propensity rhythms in the follicular and luteal phases. The daytime (09.00-16.30 h) subjective sleepiness and the number of slow wave sleep-containing nap trials...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shibui K,Uchiyama M,Okawa M,Kudo Y,Kim K,Kamei Y,Hayakawa T,Akamatsu T,Ohta K,Ishibashi K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Psychiatric disorders and treatment with conventional antipsychotic medications have been associated with venous thromboembolism, but only a few data on recent antipsychotics such as olanzapine are available. METHODS:We describe four subjects treated with olanzapine who developed venous thromboembolism, and were ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Maly R,Masopust J,Hosak L,Urban A

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：AIMS:The aim of the present study was to verify the comorbidity of conduct disorder (CD) and behavioral/developmental disorders in children and adolescents, and to examine the traits of CD comorbid with them. METHODS:Subjects were 64 children (60 boys, four girls) who were resident at three institutions for delinquent...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Harada Y,Hayashida A,Hikita S,Imai J,Sasayama D,Masutani S,Tomita T,Saitoh K,Washizuka S,Amano N

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT), often called the 'hormone of love' or 'hormone of attachment,' plays a fundamental role in the establishment and quality of parent-infant bonding. However, emerging evidence indicates that OT can also produce antisocial behavior. To clarify these effects, we review studies examining the role of endogeno...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Szymanska M,Schneider M,Chateau-Smith C,Nezelof S,Vulliez-Coady L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) with racing/crowded thoughts is understudied. Kraepelin classified 'depression with flight of ideas' in the mixed states of his manic-depressive insanity. The aim of the study was to test whether MDD with racing/crowded thoughts was close to bipolar disorders. Consecutive 379 bipolar-II...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Benazzi F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured interview was used to examine the 1-year incidence and prevalence of depression among 116 first-year university students. While 24 of the subjects (20.7%) met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th ed. (DSM-IV) criteria for Major Depressive Episode (MDE), 62 (53.4%) met the Diagnost...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tomoda A,Mori K,Kimura M,Takahashi T,Kitamura T

更新日期：2000-10-01 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