Psychological factors and survival after bone marrow transplantation in patients with leukemia.

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：: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：AIM:Internet addiction disrupts the daily lives of adolescents. We investigated the prevalence of Internet addiction in junior high school students, elucidated the relation between Internet addiction and mental states, and determined the factors associated with Internet addiction in adolescents. METHODS:Junior high sc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawabe K,Horiuchi F,Ochi M,Oka Y,Ueno S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high spatial resolution and cost performance of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is useful for estimating focus localization in epilepsy, but this is difficult in the case of ictal fMRI because this is susceptible to motion artifacts. Electroencephalogram (EEG)-triggered fMRI, which is interictal, can ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kikuchi S,Kubota F,Nishijima K,Hirai N,Washiya S,Fukuda J,Takahashi A,Shibata N,Kato S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of internet addiction using a cross-sectional survey and psychiatric interview. METHODS:A structured questionnaire consisted of demographics, Symptom Checklist 90, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale, and Young's Internet Addiction Test (YIAT...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tang J,Zhang Y,Li Y,Liu L,Liu X,Zeng H,Xiang D,Li CS,Lee TS

更新日期：2014-06-01 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

abstract：:The present paper describes cognitive approaches to the treatment of a major depressive episode in a patient with residual schizophrenia. The goal of therapy was to increase and stabilize the patient's physical activity through decreasing dysfunctional cognition pertinent to inertia. A therapeutic strategy of 'schedul...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inoue K,Kawabata S

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：:Category and letter verbal fluency tests are widely used for dementia detection and severity measure. Performances of these tasks have been regarded to be mainly associated with the left frontal lobe function. However, some recent studies suggest that there are different neuropsychological bases between these two task...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kitabayashi Y,Ueda H,Tsuchida H,Iizumi H,Narumoto J,Nakamura K,Kita H,Fukui K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of tardive dystonia are reported. The first case was an 18-year-old schizophrenic woman suffering from parkinsonism and hypotension induced by antipsychotic drugs. Risperidone (4 mg/day) was added to her drug regimen and after increasing the dosage to 6 mg/day, she began to exhibit retrocollis. The second ca...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tachikawa H,Suzuki T,Kawanishi Y,Hori M,Hori T,Shiraishi H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From our practice at the sleep disorders clinic in Kohnodai Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), we report the clinical characteristics of circadian sleep-wake rhythm disorders. Nearly 90% of circadian rhythm sleep disorders were diagnosed as delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) or as non-24 sl...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kamei Y,Urata J,Uchiyaya M,Hayakawa T,Ozaki S,Shibui K,Okawa M

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the neural substrates underlying event-related potential (ERP) abnormalities, with respect to the generators of the ERP components in depressed patients. Using an oddball paradigm, ERP from auditory stimuli were recorded from 22 unmedicated patients with current depr...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawasaki T,Tanaka S,Wang J,Hokama H,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:The initial stage of Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a neuropathological change in the entorhinal cortex. In a previous study it was shown that rats with excitotoxic lesion of entorhinal cortex showed an impaired acquisition of passive and active avoidance responses. In this study a rat with excitotoxic lesion...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Miwa C,Ueki A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the depressive realism hypothesis, which posits that depressed people are often more accurate in their perceptions and judgments than non-depressed people are. Each subject initially generated descriptions of others important to them, both positive and negative important others, in the prete...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yeh ZT,Liu SI

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：: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：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the rate of substance abuse in the juvenile detention house and to determine the relationship between crime and substance abuse and conduct disorder. Two hundred and thirty cases in the biggest juvenile detention house in Istanbul, Turkey were assessed according to Dia...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Copur M,Turkcan A,Erdogmus M

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:The current study investigated the relationship between clinical evaluations of social functioning and neurocognitive test results, including various fluency tests for assessing divergent thinking, in patients with schizophrenia. The Optional Thinking Test (OTT) was used to measure the ability of individuals to concei...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chino B,Mizuno M,Nemoto T,Yamashita C,Kashima H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children 4th edition-Chinese version (WISC-IV-Chinese) has been in clinical use in Taiwan since 2007. Research is needed to determine how the WISC-IV, modified from its earlier version, will affect its interpretation in clinical practice in a Mandarin-speaking context. METHODS:W...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yang P,Cheng CP,Chang CL,Liu TL,Hsu HY,Yen CF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia with clinical symptoms that include punching, kicking, yelling and leaping out of bed in sleep. Polysomnographic (PSG) finding showed REM sleep without muscle atonia. Clonazepam is generally used for treating RBD symptoms but melatonin was reported to be...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takeuchi N,Uchimura N,Hashizume Y,Mukai M,Etoh Y,Yamamoto K,Kotorii T,Ohshima H,Ohshima M,Maeda H

更新日期：2001-06-01 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:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between delusional thoughts (delusional ideation or misidentification) and frontal lobe function using the Japanese version of the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) bedside screening neuropsychological test in early stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nagata T,Ishii K,Ito T,Aoki K,Ehara Y,Kada H,Furukawa H,Tsumura M,Shinagawa S,Kasahara H,Nakayama K

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Subjective sleep feelings and motor activity were measured in seven healthy elderly subjects for 6 days. The subjects were exposed to bright light (6000 lux) for 30 min in the morning or instructed to sit in front of a desktop lighting device without light. The average level of motor activity during the night was sign...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kohsaka M,Fukuda N,Kobayashi R,Honma H,Sakakibara S,Koyama E,Nakano O,Matsubara H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, in the field of clinical epilepsy, it has been established that single proton emission computed tomography (SPECT) is useful for the regional determination of epileptic foci. In particular, it seems to be of great advantage to the field of clinical epilepsy that epileptic foci situation in the deep regions...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Jibiki I

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the entorhinal cortex and prepulse inhibition (PPI) as well as the nucleus accumbens dopaminergic participation in acoustic startle were examined in rats. After the entorhinal cortex was damaged bilaterally using ibotenic acid, a microdialysis probe was placed in the nucleus accumbens for dete...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Goto K,Ueki A,Iso H,Morita Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00