Catatonic features noted in patients with post-partum mental illness.

abstract：:Chronic methamphetamine psychotics became a major problem in Japan after World War II. On one hand, the clinical symptoms of chronic methamphetamine psychotics were noted to resemble those of schizophrenics quite closely but, on the other hand, their respective personality profiles appeared to differ. Recent research ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shimazono Y,Matsushima E

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:Issues related to recovery of quality of life (QoL) in depressive outpatients have been raised. This descriptive correlation study investigated QoL in depressive outpatients in Taiwan. A total of 181 depressive outpatients participated in the study. Their QoL levels were measured using the Taiwanese version of the Sho...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Sung SC,Yeh MY

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：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：:Research on the merits of long-term group residences is inconclusive. The purpose of the present paper was to investigate the effects of supported group residence on the symptoms, social function, quality of life, general health quality, and the medical/psychiatric cost in Japan of a large number of psychiatric beds a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chan H,Inoue S,Shimodera S,Fujita H,Fukuzawa K,Kii M,Kamimura N,Kato K,Mino Y

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：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：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：AIM:The goal of treating major depressive disorder is to achieve remission. This prospective study aimed to identify predictors of remission in a cohort of depressive inpatients who received fluoxetine. METHODS:A total of 131 newly hospitalized patients with major depressive disorder received a fixed dose of 20 mg/day...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lin CH,Lane HY,Chen CC,Juo SH,Yen CF

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：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：:Of the epileptic patients who were treated for > or = 5 years until the end of 1990 and had more than four seizures in 1990, 63 patients had been treated without interruption until the end of 1995. We analyzed their clinical courses from 1990 to 1995 prospectively. More than half the subjects were diagnosed with tempo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Wada K,Kiryu K,Kawata Y,Chiba T,Mizuno K,Okada M,Tasaki H,Fukushima Y,Saito F,Kaneko S

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：AIMS:Various eating-related problems are commonly observed among people with dementia, and these problems place a huge burden on the caregivers. An appropriate classification of these problems is important in order to understand their underlying mechanisms and to develop a therapeutic approach for managing them. The ai...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinagawa S,Honda K,Kashibayashi T,Shigenobu K,Nakayama K,Ikeda M

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:To estimate the prevalence, severity, and treatment of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn; DSM-IV) mental disorders in community populations in Japan, face-to-face household surveys were conducted in four community populations in Japan. A total of 1663 community adults responded (overall re...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawakami N,Takeshima T,Ono Y,Uda H,Hata Y,Nakane Y,Nakane H,Iwata N,Furukawa TA,Kikkawa T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient exhibiting functional hearing loss in her left ear demonstrated reduced amplitude of P3 component in event-related potentials (ERP) to left monaural stimulation, with preserved N1 and N2 components to stimulation of either ear. This result suggested that stimuli in the affected ear were conducted succ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukuda M,Hata A,Niwa S,Hiramatsu K,Yokokoji M,Hayashida S,Itoh K,Nakagome K,Iwanami A

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:The present study investigates the etiological roles of premilitary risk factors, military entry conditions, war zone experiences, dissociative reactions to war zone experiences and homecoming reception in the development of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Croatian veterans. A total of 150 Croatian ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Vuksić-Mihaljević Z,Mandić N,Bensić M,Mihaljević S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman with hypertension developed slowly progressive memory disturbance and disorientation. She was diagnosed as having Alzheimer-type dementia according to clinical criteria. Later her cognitive deterioration was noted to fluctuate in parallel to her blood pressure. Magnetic resonance angiography and si...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ishibashi K,Tanaka K,Nakabayashi T,Nakamura M,Uchiyama M,Okawa M

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：: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：AIMS:Antisaccadic eye movements, requiring inhibition of a saccade toward a briefly appearing peripheral target, are known to be impaired in schizophrenia. Previous neuroimaging studies have indicated that patients with schizophrenia show diminished activations in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia. These studies use...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukumoto-Motoshita M,Matsuura M,Ohkubo T,Ohkubo H,Kanaka N,Matsushima E,Taira M,Kojima T,Matsuda T

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：: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 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：:The functional promoter polymorphism -116C/G of the X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) gene was found to be associated with schizophrenia in Han Chinese and Japanese subjects, although contradictive negative findings were also reported in European populations. To confirm this association in a Japanese population, the auth...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Watanabe Y,Fukui N,Muratake T,Amagane H,Kaneko N,Nunokawa A,Someya T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00