Unipolar depression with racing thoughts: a bipolar spectrum disorder?

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：: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: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：:The aim of the study is to clarify the results of Survey-1993 conducted by the committee on the education system in Japanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry regarding the present situation of education on child and adolescent psychiatry in Japan, and to compare these with the results of Survey-1982 conducte...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hayashi M,Yamazaki K

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：:A medium-sized portable digital recorder with fully integrated circuit (IC) memories for sleep monitoring has been developed. It has five amplifiers for EEG, EMG, EOG, ECG, and a signal of body acceleration or respiration sound, four event markers, an 8 ch A/D converter, a digital signal processor (DSP), 192 Mbytes IC...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamamoto M,Nakao M,Katayama N,Waku M,Suzuki K,Irokawa K,Abe M,Ueno T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of two kinds of brief intelligence tests for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated. In study 1, five short forms of the Japanese Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (JWAIS-R) were administered to 102 AD patients. The results showed that the intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura H,Nakanishi M,Furukawa TA,Hamanaka T,Tokudome S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the test-retest reliability of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire: Revised (PDQ-R), which was developed to assess DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD). Thirty patients, diagnosed clinically with PD, filled out the PDQ-R twice at 1 month intervals after having undergone 8 weeks of treatment leading to...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Uehara T,Sakado K,Sato T

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：: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：:Oxygen saturation was measured in 37 patients with sleep-related breathing disorders over 2 nights: after alcohol intake and under control conditions. Both the number of 3% oxygen desaturation per hour (ODI3) and the lowest saturation (LSAT) were significantly aggravated after alcohol ingestion. Oxygen saturation was ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tsutsumi W,Miyazaki S,Itasaka Y,Togawa K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All night polysomnographic evaluation (PSG) soon after admission and at the late period of admission revealed an atypically high sleep efficiency and a prolonged total sleep time. Sleep onset latency and distribution of REM and NREM sleep stages were like those of normal sleepers. On REM latency, while it was remarkab...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yoshikawa N,Suzuki S,Ishimoto T,Matsumoto M,Miyagishi T

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：AIM:To examine the effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms on longitudinal changes in the quality of life (QOL) of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:First, we investigated whether neuropsychiatric symptoms at baseline predict changes in the QOL of AD patients over time. Then we examined the associations betwee...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tatsumi H,Nakaaki S,Torii K,Shinagawa Y,Watanabe N,Murata Y,Sato J,Mimura M,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main World Health Organization (WHO) activities of the Tokyo Center are as follows: (1) It performed the research project entitled 'A Bio-Psycho-Social Study on Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems' in cooperation with the Beijing and Seoul Centers from 1985 to 1987. These results suggested that the dev...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsushima E,Kojima T,Obayashi S,Ohta K,Ando K,Toru M,Shimazono Y,Takebayashi H,Takahashi S,Xia ML,Ohkura T,Yoshino M,Okubo Y,Matsuura M,Ando H

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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：:While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is currently diagnosed based solely on classic psychological and behavioral symptoms, a growing body of evidence has highlighted a link between this disorder and alterations in the immune and inflammatory systems. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that PTSD is associ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hori H,Kim Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor perception has been studied in patients with various mental disorders; however, no consensus has been reached as to its detection, identification, or pleasantness/unpleasantness of odors especially in patients with depression. One hundred and nineteen normal elderly individuals living at home were exposed to odor...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Satoh S,Morita N,Matsuzaki I,Konishi T,Nakano T,Minoshita S,Arizono H,Saito S,Ayabe AS

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:The serum concentrations of total, free and acylcarnitine were compared in 25 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and among age- and sex-matched normal controls by the new enzymatic cycling method in order to clarify whether the fatigue in MS might be due to possible carnitine-related fatty acid metabolic abnormalit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukazawa T,Sasaki H,Kikuchi S,Hamada T,Tashiro K

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：: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：:An extensive survey of problems encountered by foreign students of the University of the Ryukyus and the resulting levels of stress was carried out in order to determine the main stressors hindering academic progress and personal adjustment. Subjectively perceived stress levels after arrival in Japan were obtained fro...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Randall M,Naka K,Yamamoto K,Nakamoto H,Arakaki H,Ogura C

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：: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：AIMS:The present study was designed to investigate quality of life (QOL) among caregivers of cancer inpatients, and to explore the related factors with the long-term goal to improve QOL of cancer caregivers in China. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was performed during the period January-March 2008. Subjects comprised...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lu L,Pan B,Sun W,Cheng L,Chi T,Wang L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of insight into illness is a prevalent and distinguishing feature of schizophrenia, which has a complex history and has been given a variety of definitions. Currently, insight is measured and treated as a multidimensional phenomenon, because it is believed to result from psychological, neuropsychological and orga...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ouzir M,Azorin JM,Adida M,Boussaoud D,Battas O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to clarify the differences in clinical implications between wrist- and arm-cutting. Subjects were 201 delinquent adolescents (178 males and 23 females) who had been admitted to a detention center from February to March 2003. A self-reporting questionnaire and the Adolescent Dissociative Exp...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto T,Yamaguchi A,Chiba Y,Asami T,Iseki E,Hirayasu Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We had investigated the clinical characteristics of panic disorder (PD) in a Japanese outpatient population comprised of more than 250 patients diagnosed as having PD during a 13-year study period and observed that some PD patients had both panic attacks (PA) and limited symptom panic attacks (LPA). In the criteria fo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shioiri T,Someya T,Fujii K,Noguchi T,Takahashi S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00