Structured intervention in family caregivers of the demented elderly and changes in their immune function.

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：: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：: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：AIMS:The purpose of the present study was to investigate sleep structure in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients with and without any psychiatric comorbidities. The relationship between sleep variables and measurements of clinical symptom severity were also investigated. METHODS:Sleep patterns of 24 non-medi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yetkin S,Aydin H,Ozgen F

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetoencephalographic (MEG) counterpart (MMNm) are an established biological index in schizophrenia research. MMN in response to duration and frequency deviants may have differential relevance to the pathophysiology and clinical stages of schizophrenia. MEG has advantage...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Suga M,Nishimura Y,Kawakubo Y,Yumoto M,Kasai K

更新日期：2016-07-01 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: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：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：AIMS:A tree-drawing test acts as both a projective psychological examination as well as a supplementary psychodiagnostic tool. There is little information relating the characteristics of schizophrenia and the tree-drawing test. The present study compared the structural and morphological differences in the results of th...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kaneda A,Yasui-Furukori N,Saito M,Sugawara N,Nakagami T,Furukori H,Kaneko S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred and twelve students aged from 6 to 18 years were administered the morningness-eveningness questionnaire and a sleep log. The mean morningness-eveningness score decreased with grade; this decrease was significant around the seventh grade. The habitual waking time showed no difference among grades but the h...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinkoda H,Matsumoto K,Park YM,Nagashima H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) has rarely been reported as an eating disorder-related personality trait. A 23-year-old woman was diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa binge eating/purging type. At the age of 53 years, she was admitted to Jikei University Hospital because of excessive bodyweight loss. She was di...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nagata T,Ono K,Nakayama K

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：AIM:The aim of this study was to examine over a 12-month post-intervention period whether the participation of community-living individuals with mental illness in cognitive behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem (CBGTRS) resulted in improved outcomes. METHODS:This was a non-randomized controlled trial. T...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kunikata H,Yoshinaga N,Nakajima K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first application of computed tomographic scan to the schizophrenic brain by Johnstone et al. initiated a new neuroscience research era with new perspectives on the neurobiological aspects of major psychoses. The most common paradigm in the flurry of brain imaging studies following the first report was the case-co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okazaki Y

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusions associated with cerebrovascular diseases have been sporadically reported. Although both psychiatrists and neurologists attempted to link delusions with anatomical locations of the brain lesion, comorbid psychiatric and neurological disorders make the interpretation of delusions difficult. The purpose of the ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Su KP,Hsu CY,Hsieh SC,Shen WW

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Prescription opioids are psychoactive substances that can elicit many neuropsychological effects. There are no studies that directly demonstrate the effects of prescription opioid addiction (POA) on the human brain. This study aimed to quantify γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu) levels in the prefrontal...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li JN,Liu XL,Li L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The orexigenic hormone, ghrelin, is linked to learning and memory in animal studies. No previous study has investigated whether cognition is related to ghrelin in the non-demented elderly. METHODS:Thirty-five older adults underwent neuropsychological testing and fasting blood draw with subsequent serum ghrelin qua...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Spitznagel MB,Benitez A,Updegraff J,Potter V,Alexander T,Glickman E,Gunstad J

更新日期：2010-12-01 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 this study was to investigate the effect of sociodemographic factors, physical factors and mental factors on the physical and social disability of patients attending outpatient clinics of general hospitals. Physical and psychiatric morbidity in 1580 consecutive patients attending the internal medicine depar...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Sata M,Yoshitake K,Utsunomiya H,Hatada K,Ohtsuka T,Sugasaki H,Nakane Y

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using urethane-anaesthetized rats, the effects of acupunctural stimulation to the sacral segment on the urinary bladder activity and cortical electroencephalogram (EEG) were examined. The acupuncture suppressed urinary bladder activity in 36 of 68 trials. On many occasions (22/36 trials), suppression was accompanied b...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tanaka Y,Koyama Y,Jodo E,Kayama Y,Kawauchi A,Ukimura O,Miki T

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Four hours after having taken 10 ecstasy tablets a Grand Mal seizure occurred in a 19-year-old woman followed by coma, hyperthermia, tachycardia, tachypnea, and renal failure. After awakening she was oriented but presented with helplessness, disconcertion, hallucinations, panic attacks, and amnesic syndrome. Computed ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Finsterer J,Stöllberger C,Steger C,Kroiss A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial magnetic resonance (MR) images were obtained for 18 months in the follow-up of a patient with delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The characteristic findings on T2-weighted MR images (T2WI) were high intensity in the bilateral periventricular white matter and pallidal regions, and...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inagaki T,Ishino H,Seno H,Umegae N,Aoyama T

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：: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：:The purpose of the present paper was to clarify the link between the attention and arousal level that supports the basis of the cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, by investigating the relationship between the simple reaction time and the closed-eye eye movements in 30 patients with schizophrenia and 20 healthy co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura M,Matsushima E,Ohta K,Ando K,Kojima T

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：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：:Psychological factors may be associated with the outcome of cancer treatment, including bone marrow transplantation (BMT). However, studies on the issue have provided controversial results. In the present study, effects of mood status on the outcome was studied through a follow-up period of 1-3 years as well as in sho...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Akaho R,Sasaki T,Mori S,Akiyama H,Yoshino M,Hagiya K,Nakagome K,Sakamaki H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00