Plasma nitrate values in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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：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：AIM:To evaluate the severity of depression by measuring alterations in prefrontal cortical activity associated with mood disorders, as assessed on near-infrared spectroscopy. METHODS:Ten of 27 subjects hospitalized for late-life depression from May 2006 to June 2007, were examined. In these 10 subjects changes in hemo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Onishi Y,Kikuchi S,Watanabe E,Kato S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author's goal was to investigate the effects of surgical treatment on psychophysiological measurements in 17 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and also to clarify the improvement process of each evaluation. Given the changes in respiratory disturbance and sleep architecture, it was obvious that...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamadera W

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:Tsukuba College of Technology is the first national university established as an institute of higher education for the visually and hearing impaired. We have been systematically conducting a University Personality Inventory (UPI) survey on our students since 1989 to understand their mental health. In this study, we co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yoshida T,Ichikawa T,Ishikawa T,Hori M

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：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：AIMS:Suicidal behavior (SB) is a major mental health problem. The research has identified many factors related to SB, such as problems in the developmental period and psychiatric and personality disorders. However, the interrelation of these factors has not been clearly delineated. METHODS:The subjects were 155 patien...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hayashi N,Igarashi M,Imai A,Yoshizawa Y,Asamura K,Ishikawa Y,Tokunaga T,Ishimoto K,Tatebayashi Y,Kumagai N,Ishii H,Okazaki Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night-time bright light (BL) treatment and triazolam (0.125 mg/day) were given to three healthy elderly people in a cross-over design. They kept a daytime sleepiness test and a sleep log, and their wrist-activity was monitored simultaneously. Subjectively, BL increased daytime sleepiness and naps, and decreased night-...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Usui A,Ishizuka Y,Matsushita Y,Fukuzawa H,Kanba S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently a new sustained-release formulation of valproic acid has been developed in Japan. The sustained-release mechanism of the new formulation was different from the conventional formulation. The aim of the present study was to compare the pharmacokinetic characteristics of valproic acid in two sustained-release fo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yasui-Furukori N,Saito M,Nakagami T,Niioka T,Sato Y,Fujii A,Kaneko S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to identify women with thoughts of self-harm preceded by suicidal ideation, during the perinatal period, on cluster analysis and to clarify their psychological correlates. METHODS:A secondary analysis was conducted using the data from a longitudinal study involving 18 obstetric clinics be...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takegata M,Takeda S,Sakanashi K,Tanaka T,Kitamura T

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：AIM:Neurofeedback has been studied with the aim of controlling cerebral activity. Near-infrared spectroscopy is a non-invasive neuroimaging technique used for measuring hemoglobin concentration changes in cortical surface areas with high temporal resolution. Thus, near-infrared spectroscopy may be useful for neurofeedb...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kinoshita A,Takizawa R,Yahata N,Homae F,Hashimoto R,Sakakibara E,Kawasaki S,Nishimura Y,Koike S,Kasai K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of internet addiction using a cross-sectional survey and psychiatric interview. METHODS:A structured questionnaire consisted of demographics, Symptom Checklist 90, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale, and Young's Internet Addiction Test (YIAT...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tang J,Zhang Y,Li Y,Liu L,Liu X,Zeng H,Xiang D,Li CS,Lee TS

更新日期：2014-06-01 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

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：AIM:Brain metabolism activated studies have indicated associations between memory and the anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus in patients with depression. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigate memory function, measured as performance on the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R), and its relati...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Azuma H,Segawa K,Nakaaki S,Murata Y,Kawakami K,Tohyama J,Iidaka T,Shinagawa Y,Nakano Y,Yamada A,Watanabe N,Hongo J,Akechi T,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：: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：AIMS:Alterations in cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) levels are thought to play a role in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of serum cortisol and DHEA-S in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. METHODS:Sixty...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yıldırım O,Dogan O,Semiz M,Kilicli F

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:We present the case of a 71-year-old woman with an 11-year history of slowly progressive decline of motor speech. Normal clinical investigations including routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7, 8 and 10 years after the onset of speech dysfunction led to the suggestion of a psychogenic disorder. Extensive clini...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tebartz van Elst LH,Juengling FD,Kassubek J,Schmidtke K,Thiel T,Ebert D,Dykierek P,Hüll M

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:In the present study we applied the Zung self-rating depression scale (SDS) to 19 renal failure patients who were introduced to haemodialysis in the Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan. The patients were divided into two groups: the emergent introduction (EI) group, who underwent unanticipated and sudden in...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Miura H,Kitagami T,Ohta T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the mechanism of abnormal P300 findings in the patients with severe sleep apnea syndrome (SAS). Compared with controls, SAS patients showed significantly longer latency of P300. Not the mean sleep latency in multiple sleep latency test but the percentage of total periods in which percentage desaturatio...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inoue Y,Nanba K,Kojima K,Mitani H,Arai AH

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:The evidence to date on the relation between the risk of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) and antipsychotic agents derives primarily from observational and case history studies. While an increased risk of VTE has been associated with first-generation low-potency antipsychotic agents, particularly clozapine, there a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Masopust J,Malý R,Vališ M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Internet addiction disrupts the daily lives of adolescents. We investigated the prevalence of Internet addiction in junior high school students, elucidated the relation between Internet addiction and mental states, and determined the factors associated with Internet addiction in adolescents. METHODS:Junior high sc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawabe K,Horiuchi F,Ochi M,Oka Y,Ueno S

更新日期：2016-09-01 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