Suicidal ideation and associated factors among community-dwelling elders in Taiwan.

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: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：: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:The study aimed to examine the family burden and quality of life (QOL) of caregivers of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS:A cross-sectional assessment of 50 patients with OCD and their caregivers was carried out. The severity of OCD was assessed using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Sc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Grover S,Dutt A

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：AIMS:Oxidative stress has gained attention recently in psychiatric medicine and has been reported to be associated with various diseases. However, the psychosocial factors involved in oxidative stress are still not well understood. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether anxiety levels and neuroticism were a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsushita M,Kumano-Go T,Suganuma N,Adachi H,Yamamura S,Morishima H,Shigedo Y,Mikami A,Takeda M,Sugita Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Neuroimaging-based multivariate pattern-recognition methods have been successfully used to develop diagnostic algorithms to distinguish patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) from healthy controls (HC). We developed and evaluated the accuracy of a multivariate classification method for the differentiation of...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ramasubbu R,Brown EC,Marcil LD,Talai AS,Forkert ND

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Recent cognitive neuroscience research shows that noninvasive brain stimulation can modify a wide range of behaviors in healthy people. Such regulation effects on human behaviors provide new insights into the neurobiology of cognitive processes and establish causal brain-behavior relations. Here, we aimed to examin...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Khaleghi A,Pirzad Jahromi G,Zarafshan H,Mostafavi SA,Mohammadi MR

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Medically, insight is a multidimensional concept. Results of previous studies are inconclusive regarding the relationship between insight and global and cognitive functions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship among insight, patients' global function, cognitive function of patients with schizophreni...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chen KC,Chu CL,Yang YK,Yeh TL,Lee IH,Chen PS,Lu RB

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of circadian typology on sleep-wake behavior in shiftworkers were investigated using wrist actigraph in 18 air traffic controllers (ATC), nine morning types and nine evening types, working in a backward 1-1-1 super rapid rotation shift schedule. The ATC wore a wrist actigraph continuously over 6 days (3 da...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Natale V,Martoni M,Cicogna P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal processing of facial expressions is assumed to be an important factor mediating the course of depression. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ability to disengage attention from facial emotion in depressed patients in the course of an inpatient treatment program. It was hypothesized that in de...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Karparova SP,Kersting A,Suslow T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review summarizes and critically appraises the literature on the effect of erythropoietin (EPO) in schizophrenia patients and the pathophysiological mechanisms that may explain the potential of its use in this disease. EPO is mainly known for its regulatory activity in the synthesis of erythrocytes and...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fond G,Macgregor A,Attal J,Larue A,Brittner M,Ducasse D,Capdevielle D

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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

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：:The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic concepts of taijin-kyofu-sho (TKS) and social phobia, by comparing the clinical diagnosis of TKS and the operational diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd edition, revised; DSM-III-R). Three evaluators conducted s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura K,Kitanishi K,Miyake Y,Hashimoto K,Kubota M

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:In September 1987 in Japan, the Mental Hygiene Law was amended to the Mental Health Law. This Law emphasizes the protection of human rights of the mentally disabled as well as the promotion of their social rehabilitation. In 1993, Mental Health Law was partially revised in the following four areas: (i) social rehabili...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Asai K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the neuronal mechanism underpinning the pathophysiology of compulsive hoarding. We report the cerebral blood flow changes in an obsessive-convulsive patient with severe hoarding. The patient showed hyperperfusion of the fronto-temporal region and hypoperfusion of the striatal, the middle cingulat...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ohtsuchi H,Matsuo K,Akimoto T,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Psychiatric disorders are easily underestimated and under-recognized by physicians. The aim of the present study was to investigate the change in accuracy of recognizing psychiatric symptoms. METHODS:Consecutive 5-year consultation-liaison data were collected and patients with one of the five common psychiatric di...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Su JA,Tsai CS,Hung TH,Chou SY

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is implicated in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A recent study found a rare non-synonymous OXTR gene variation, rs35062132 (R376G), associated with ASD in a Japanese population. In order to investigate the association between rare non-synonymous OXTR variations ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Egawa J,Watanabe Y,Shibuya M,Endo T,Sugimoto A,Igeta H,Nunokawa A,Inoue E,Someya T

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：AIM:The objective of this study was to utilize commonly applied tools, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - Depression subscale (HADS-D) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), to screen for depressive symptoms in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Fur...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hayashi Y,Senjyu H,Iguchi A,Iwai S,Kanada R,Honda S,Ozawa H

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of a group structured intervention on the mental and physical discomfort and immune function of 20 family caregivers. A structured intervention for caregivers consists of five sessions, each of which lasts 90 min. This was a modified version of the program th...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hosaka T,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Earlier comparisons of cognitive impairment among patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have found a largely similar profile of deficits, but results have varied between studies. This prompted the current attempt at another such comparison. METHODS:Executive functions, memory, IQ, attention-concentrati...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Pradhan BK,Chakrabarti S,Nehra R,Mankotia A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00