Involvement of nucleus accumbens dopaminergic transmission in acoustic startle: observations concerning prepulse inhibition in rats with entorhinal cortex lesions.

abstract：AIM:The present study was a 52-week, non-comparative, open-label study of flexible dose paroxetine (20-40 mg) in 52 Japanese post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients in order to obtain clinical experience regarding efficacy and safety in regular clinical practice. METHODS:Efficacy was measured using the Clinicia...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kim Y,Asukai N,Konishi T,Kato H,Hirotsune H,Maeda M,Inoue H,Narita H,Iwasaki M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the prevalence, distribution of psychiatric diagnoses, and treatment responses of patients with post-partum mental illness at an emergency unit at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung in Taiwan. During a 1 year period a total of 636 Taiwanese women received psyc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lai JY,Huang TL

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：AIM:The purpose of this study was to examine the following hypothesis: (i) Self-esteem and aggressiveness, adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and a depressive tendency interact with each other. (ii) The subjects show a strong depressive tendency, and each of the other factors exerts a main effect on, and interacts wi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsuura N,Hashimoto T,Toichi M

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：:To study course and outcome of Bipolar II disorder, 217 major depressive episode (MDE) patients were interviewed with Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Patients with more than three MDE and patients with fewer MDE were compared. Patients with more than three MDE were 77.8%. Comparisons, controlled for confound...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Benazzi F

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report cases of four patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) with frequent breathing-related electroencephalogram (EEG) arousals which led to excessive daytime sleepiness. In spite of a relatively low apnea hypopnea index (AHI), sleep was disrupted by frequent EEG arousals associated with respira...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mikami A,Watanabe T,Motonishi M,Honda H,Kyotani K,Uruha S,Terashima K,Teshima Y,Sugita Y,Takeda M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear polyadenylate polymerase from I activity in the brains of seizure-prone EL mice was significantly higher than in seizure-non-susceptible progenitor ddY mice. This finding may be essential in acquiring susceptibility to seizures, since there was no significant difference between EL(S) mice and those that did no...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kioka T,Yamagami S,Mui K,Onishi H

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:The uses of lorazepam and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have been proven to be effective in treating catatonia. In the present study a modified treatment strategy (i.e. lorazepam i.m. injection or diazepam infused i.v. if lorazepam failed, not with ECT) was proposed to rapidly relieve catatonic signs in patients wit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Huang TL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To elucidate the factors associated with insomnia symptoms and the use of sleep medication, and the correlations among insomnia symptoms, sleep medication use and depressive symptoms in the general population. METHODS:This survey was conducted in a rural community of Japan. Questionnaires consisted of basic inform...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Komada Y,Nomura T,Kusumi M,Nakashima K,Okajima I,Sasai T,Inoue Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four community residing elderly people in need of care, who were registered with the municipal welfare center in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and their principal caregivers participated in the study. The principal caregivers completed a self-administered questionnaire involving their demographic status, provided d...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Arai Y,Miura H,Washio M,Kudo K

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The authors investigated the correlation between prolactin concentrations during aripiprazole treatment and various factors, including age, sex, plasma concentrations of aripiprazole and its active metabolite, dehydroaripiprazole, and genetic polymorphisms of dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) and cytochrome P450(CYP)2D6...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nagai G,Mihara K,Nakamura A,Suzuki T,Nemoto K,Kagawa S,Ohta I,Arakaki H,Kondo T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effects of the daytime nap on performance, mood and physiological measures in aged individuals Participants were six healthy aged persons (M=72.2 years old) who habitually napped in the afternoon three or more times a week. They participated under two conditions with an interval of 1 week. In ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tamaki M,Shirota A,Tanaka H,Hayashi M,Hori T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical antipsychotics are rapidly evolving to become the standard pharmacotherapy in schizophrenia; however, the trend of switching to such drugs is not necessarily progressing quickly in East Asia. This might be due to the scarcity of evidence for the efficacy of switching from conventional to atypical antipsychoti...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakanishi S,Kunugi H,Murray RM,Nojima S,Ogawa T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hikikomori, a severe form of social withdrawal, has long been observed in Japan mainly among youth and adolescents since around the 1970s, and has been especially highlighted since the late 1990s. Moreover, hikikomori-like cases have recently been reported in many other countries. Hikikomori negatively influences not ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kato TA,Kanba S,Teo AR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:It is difficult to diagnose dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) because it exhibits clinical and neuropathological overlap with both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The α-synuclein protein is a major component of Lewy bodies, and accumulation of α-synuclein aggregates causes synaptic dysfunction in DLB. Ep...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Funahashi Y,Yoshino Y,Yamazaki K,Mori Y,Mori T,Ozaki Y,Sao T,Ochi S,Iga JI,Ueno SI

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a significant problem for some patients presenting with snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness. The 'golden standard' therapy in OSAS is considered to be nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). The effects of CPAP on work performance in sleep apnoics has not been ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ulfberg J,Jonsson R,Edling C

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：AIM:Atypical antipsychotic treatment (e.g. risperidone) has been found to improve social functioning more than standard antipsychotic treatment. However, it is unclear which specific social behaviors are implicated in this improvement. The current study employed an interactive puzzle game to examine how social behavior...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tse WS,Wong AS,Chan F,Pang AH,Bond AJ,Chan CK

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：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：: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：AIMS:The reasons for accessing and maintaining access to mental health services in Japan may be different to those in other countries. Using the World Health Organization World Mental Health Japan survey data, this study investigated the prevalence of sociodemographic correlates of barriers for the use of, reasons for ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kanehara A,Umeda M,Kawakami N,World Mental Health Japan Survey Group.

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the Waldrop scale (WS) was used to assess the prevalence of minor physical anomalies in schizophrenic patients (n = 71) and healthy controls (n = 65). The mean total WS score was 3.32 (SD 1.98) for the schizophrenic patients, significantly higher than that for the controls (2.19, SD 1.18). Minor ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hata K,Iida J,Iwasaka H,Negoro HI,Ueda F,Kishimoto T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Suicide is a leading cause of death among Japanese college and university students. Gatekeeper-training programs have been shown to improve detection and referral of individuals who are at risk of suicide by training non-mental-health professional persons. However, no studies have investigated the effectiveness of...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hashimoto N,Suzuki Y,Kato TA,Fujisawa D,Sato R,Aoyama-Uehara K,Fukasawa M,Asakura S,Kusumi I,Otsuka K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00