Effects of bright light at lunchtime on sleep in patients in a geriatric hospital II.

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：AIMS:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of various disease-modifying therapies (DMT) on quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:This was a three-arm parallel study with balanced randomization in which 90 newly diagnosed, definite MS subjects referred to Ghaem Medical Center, Mashhad, Iran wer...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mokhber N,Azarpazhooh A,Orouji E,Khorram B,Modares Gharavi M,Kakhi S,Khallaghi H,Azarpazhooh MR

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Although a number of studies have examined anosognosia of cognitive deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), not much is known about the anosognosia of behavioral symptoms in AD. The aims of the present study were to establish a Japanese version of the Anosognosia Questionnaire-Dementia (AQ-D) and to examin...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Sato J,Nakaaki S,Murata Y,Shinagawa Y,Matsui T,Hongo J,Tatsumi H,Akechi T,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2007-12-01 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: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：: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：AIM:Blood concentrations of cell-free DNA, which is considered to be released during apoptosis, are elevated under some pathological conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. The association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cell-free DNA concentrations has not been reported so far. The purpose of t...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shin C,Kim JK,Kim JH,Jung KH,Cho KJ,Lee CK,Lee SG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a questionnaire survey among 1329 first-trimester pregnant women, social support providers were divided by factor analysis into husband, 'premarital network' (parents and friends) and 'postmarital network' (children and mother-in-law), while social support contents were divided into 'given' (emotional, informationa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kitamura T,Toda MA,Shima S,Sugawara K,Sugawara M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Antidepressants have been of limited use for adolescent subjects with depression because of drug-induced suicide-related events (SRE). Therefore, we investigated actual suicidality and its risk factors during antidepressant therapy among child and adolescent patients in clinical settings. METHODS:The risks of SRE...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kuba T,Yakushi T,Fukuhara H,Nakamoto Y,Singeo ST Jr,Tanaka O,Kondo T

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：AIMS:The neural substrate for the processing of gaze remains unknown. The aim of the present study was to clarify which hemisphere dominantly processes and whether bilateral hemispheres cooperate with each other in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention. METHODS:Twenty-eight normal subjects were tested. The non-p...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okada T,Sato W,Kubota Y,Toichi M,Murai T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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 subjects of this study were 306 male alcoholics who lived in Osaka, Japan, and who were initially diagnosed with alcoholism at a psychiatric institution between 1972 and 1983. Follow-up studies were done on three occasions: 1 March 1985 (Time 1), 1 November 1988 (Time 2) and 1 March 1992 (Time 3). We followed up 2...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Noda T,Imamichi H,Kawata A,Hirano K,Ando T,Iwata Y,Yoneda H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, is widely used to treat major depression. However, the symptomatological predictors of the response to fluvoxamine have not been studied. METHODS:This study included 100 Japanese patients who fulfilled the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Higuchi H,Sato K,Yoshida K,Takahashi H,Kamata M,Otani K,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：2008-06-01 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 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：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：:The objective of the present study was to analyze fractal structures of adult heart rate (HR) variability during a nap. Fractal analysis was carried out in one case over consecutive 10-min time series of HR, which were simultaneously recorded with electroencephalogram. Scaling relationships showed cross-over patterns ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shono H,Shono M,Takasaki M,Iwasaka T,Sugimori H

更新日期：2001-06-01 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 purpose of this study was to understand the sleep-wake cycle during the period from late pregnancy to about 3 months of postpartum by evaluating the number of actigraphic activities in four women (one multipara and three primi gravidae), and to compare the results with the findings from sleep logs. An irregularity...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinkoda H,Matsumoto K,Park YM

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：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：: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：:Thirty-seven patients (35 men and two women) with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) without any known cardiovascular and lung diseases were examined by Doppler echocardiography. Eight of the 37 (21.6%) patients experienced daytime pulmonary hypertension (PH), and all of them had severe OSAHS with an ap...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamakawa H,Shiomi T,Sasanabe R,Hasegawa R,Ootake K,Banno K,Wakayama H,Katada M,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the correlation between the incidence of post-stroke depression (PSD) and the levels of substance P (SP) in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). METHODS:Ninety-one stroke patients were divided into PSD (n = 46) and post-stroke (without depression) groups (n = 45). PSD must have occurred 2-4 we...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li L,Gao X,Zhao J,Ji X,Wei H,Luo Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the test-retest reliability of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire: Revised (PDQ-R), which was developed to assess DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD). Thirty patients, diagnosed clinically with PD, filled out the PDQ-R twice at 1 month intervals after having undergone 8 weeks of treatment leading to...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Uehara T,Sakado K,Sato T

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：AIMS:Post-traumatic growth (PTG) refers to positive changes that result from coping with a major life crisis or a traumatic event. Factors influencing PTG in youth have not been well characterized but could have a great impact on overall maturation. METHODS:Fourth to ninth graders (n = 3337) attending elementary or ju...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yoshida H,Kobayashi N,Honda N,Matsuoka H,Yamaguchi T,Homma H,Tomita H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00