The relationship among insight, cognitive function of patients with schizophrenia and their relatives' perception.

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL1) is an inflammatory cytokine and exerts neurodegenerative effects in the brain. Several studies have indicated that IL1 is likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Recent genetic studies have revealed that the IL1 gene complex (IL,1 alpha, IL1, beta and IL1 receptor antagonist) wa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Watanabe Y,Nunokawa A,Kaneko N,Muratake T,Koizumi M,Someya T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In a previous study it was demonstrated that the anxiolytic action of tandospirone, a 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)(1A) receptor agonist, is facilitated by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 inhibitors, such as ketoconazole and cimetidine. It is also known that fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI), in...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nishikawa H,Inoue T,Masui T,Izumi T,Nakagawa S,Koyama T

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Psychological factors may be associated with the outcome of cancer treatment, including bone marrow transplantation (BMT). However, studies on the issue have provided controversial results. In the present study, effects of mood status on the outcome was studied through a follow-up period of 1-3 years as well as in sho...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Akaho R,Sasaki T,Mori S,Akiyama H,Yoshino M,Hagiya K,Nakagome K,Sakamaki H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier experiments have suggested impaired auditory perception in patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to investigate auditory discrimination in young adults varying in schizotypal features. Three hundred and forty-nine female adolescent subjects were rated with the Schizotypal Personalit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li CS,Yang YY,Chen MC,Chen WJ,Liu JL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present paper was to investigate the role and attitude of people who accompanied geriatric patients to an outpatient psychiatric clinic. The study was conducted at a large university hospital in Taiwan. Participants included 108 patients aged 65 years and older who were seen for their initial psychi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chen CY,Chen YJ,Juang YY,Liu CY,Hung CI

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is usually diagnosed on the basis of the typical clinical course, with remission and exacerbation in multiple parts of the central nervous system (CNS). Recently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has made a large contribution to the diagnosis of patients with MS. But it is difficult to make a d...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ogawa K,Kishi M,Kurihara T,Ikeda K,Kinoshita M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency and type of psychological problems of outpatients in general healthcare settings, the recognition and management of those problems by physicians, and the course of the problems were investigated using a two-stage sampling design method. The subjects were outpatients visiting the department of internal me...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Utsunomiya H,Yoshitake K,Otsuka T,Sugasakl H,Sata M,Hatada K,Nakane Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary study on the Noh mask test for analysis of recognition of facial expression was performed. The present study was conducted on 15 normal subjects (mean age: 32 years, SD 9.7 years) as the first step to test for the differences between psychiatric patients and normal subjects. Stimuli were created by photo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Minoshita S,Satoh S,Morita N,Tagawa A,Kikuchi T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have introduced behavior therapy as standard in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa and have modified the treatment program. At first, we used Fukamachi's activity restriction therapy (FT), followed by Token economy therapy (TET), which combined token economy with FT. Finally, we have developed Kyoto Prefectural...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okamoto A,Yamashita T,Nagoshi Y,Masui Y,Wada Y,Kashima A,Arii I,Nakamura M,Fukui K

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：AIMS:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of various disease-modifying therapies (DMT) on quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:This was a three-arm parallel study with balanced randomization in which 90 newly diagnosed, definite MS subjects referred to Ghaem Medical Center, Mashhad, Iran wer...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mokhber N,Azarpazhooh A,Orouji E,Khorram B,Modares Gharavi M,Kakhi S,Khallaghi H,Azarpazhooh MR

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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:Fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, is widely used to treat major depression. However, the symptomatological predictors of the response to fluvoxamine have not been studied. METHODS:This study included 100 Japanese patients who fulfilled the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Higuchi H,Sato K,Yoshida K,Takahashi H,Kamata M,Otani K,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of transient global amnesia (TGA) diagnosed using a clinical criteria and single photon emission tomography (SPECT) with the aid of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). Both patients underwent an initial SPECT study about 20 h after the disappearance of the amnesic episode, and a second study 3 we...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Asada T,Matsuda H,Morooka T,Nakano S,Kimura M,Uno M

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Antiepileptic drugs (AED) were discontinued in 55 epileptics who had been free from seizures treated with AED, in accordance with the following criteria and procedures. (i) A reduction in AED commences when patients have been free from seizures for at least 2 years and epileptic discharges have also disappeared in rep...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakazawa Y,Ishida S,Maeda H,Sakurai S,Motooka H

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We compared the 1-year rehospitalization rates of first-episode bipolar manic patients who were discharged while being treated with lithium or valproate in combination with an atypical antipsychotic. METHODS:We investigated the rehospitalization status of first-episode bipolar manic patients who were discharged be...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Woo YS,Bahk WM,Jung YE,Jeong JH,Lee HB,Won SH,Lee KH,Jon DI,Yoon BH,Kim MD,Min KJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper examines the relationship between observational behavior and the observers' result assumptions, using a contained diagram that includes significant non-verbal information, such as gestures. The ability of care workers to assess a patient's mental status on the basis of non-verbal information would be co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto K,Shibata S,Seiji S,Mori C,Shioe K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is widely used as a measure of premorbid IQ of the English-speaking patients with dementia. The purpose of the present study was to develop a Japanese version of the NART (JART), using 50 Japanese irregular words, all of which are Kanji (ideographic script) compound words. Readin...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsuoka K,Uno M,Kasai K,Koyama K,Kim Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P300 amplitude reduction in schizophrenia is, according to previous studies, partially recovered by treatment with neuroleptics. However, whether this medication-induced P300 recovery is associated with duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) remains unreported; the present study is a preliminary examination of this que...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Wang J,Hirayasu Y,Hokama H,Tanaka S,Kondo T,Zhang M,Xiao Z

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:To explore more fully the relationship between neuronal death and neurofibrillary degeneration, unaffected neurons, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (i-NFT) and extracellular NFT (e-NFT) in 22 patients with late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) were morphometrically evaluated in eight subdivisions of the h...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukutani Y,Cairns NJ,Shiozawa M,Sasaki K,Sudo S,Isaki K,Lantos PL

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：:We made an attempt to express a complaint of sleep disturbance by a self-rating scale of radar chart mode. The questionnaire for sleep disturbance is made up of eight items. Each item was scored from grade 1 to 4. The score of each item was projected to the MY radar chart, designed by us. It is noted that this method ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamaguchi N,Matsubara S,Momonoi F,Morikawa K,Takeyama M,Maeda Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new mathematical method was developed to analyze time series. Applications of this method to the delta component of all-night sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) revealed new variations with double-rapid eye movement (REM)-sleep interval. The proposed method entails repeated application of the least squares spectrum. F...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Koga E,Tsuji Y

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00