Brain glucose metabolism and temperament in relation to severe somatization.

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:Tissue pH and RNA integrity are crucial quality-control indicators of human post-mortem brain tissues in the identification of the pathogeneses of neuropsychiatric disorders, but pH has not been measured as often due to limitations in the amount of tissue available. This study was designed to develop and validate a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ono CT,Yu Z,Kikuchi Y,Kunii Y,Hino M,Matsumoto J,Nagaoka A,Ito J,Iwasaki Y,Hagihara H,Miyakawa T,Yoshida M,Saito Y,Niwa SI,Yabe H,Kakita A,Tomita H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Prescription opioids are psychoactive substances that can elicit many neuropsychological effects. There are no studies that directly demonstrate the effects of prescription opioid addiction (POA) on the human brain. This study aimed to quantify γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu) levels in the prefrontal...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li JN,Liu XL,Li L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In Japan, a new comprehensive forensic mental health service was established and enforced in 2005. However, the shortage of psychiatrists dedicated to this service is a problem. Therefore, we investigated the attitudes of general psychiatrists in Japan toward this field in order to develop measures for dealing with...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Haraguchi T,Fujisaki M,Shiina A,Igarashi Y,Okamura N,Fukami G,Shiraishi T,Nakazato M,Iyo M

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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: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：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：:Attentional processes play a central role in information selection, which is impaired in schizophrenic patients. In the present study, we attempted to characterize the attentional performance of chronic schizophrenics using a computerized assessment of the multiple components of attentional function. Two comparable sa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Cremasco L,Cappa SF

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:A high disease burden of mental disorders has been noted worldwide, including Japan. It is important to monitor mental disorder prevalence trends and the use of mental health services over time using epidemiological data and to plan appropriate policies and measures that consider mental health in each country. This re...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nishi D,Ishikawa H,Kawakami N

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:The present study examined the depressive realism hypothesis, which posits that depressed people are often more accurate in their perceptions and judgments than non-depressed people are. Each subject initially generated descriptions of others important to them, both positive and negative important others, in the prete...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yeh ZT,Liu SI

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Several lines of evidence suggest that major depressive disorder is associated with an inflammatory status. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha has been investigated as a potential molecular target in mood disorders. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha exerts its activity through binding to specific cell membrane receptors named a...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Grassi-Oliveira R,Brietzke E,Pezzi JC,Lopes RP,Teixeira AL,Bauer ME

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured interview was used to examine the 1-year incidence and prevalence of depression among 116 first-year university students. While 24 of the subjects (20.7%) met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th ed. (DSM-IV) criteria for Major Depressive Episode (MDE), 62 (53.4%) met the Diagnost...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tomoda A,Mori K,Kimura M,Takahashi T,Kitamura T

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:The aim of the present study was to provide basic descriptive data regarding utilization of 12-month mental health services in the Japanese community population. Face-to-face household surveys were carried out in four areas (two urban cities and two rural municipalities), and a total of 1663 persons participated (over...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Naganuma Y,Tachimori H,Kawakami N,Takeshima T,Ono Y,Uda H,Hata Y,Nakane Y,Nakane H,Iwata N,Furukawa TA,Kikkawa T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was purposed to identify the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and its associated factors in the Korean adult population. Among a total of 9939 participants derived from the Korean Health and Genome Study, 12.1% of subjects (men, 8.5%; women, 15.4%) suffered from RLS. Factors independently r...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kim J,Choi C,Shin K,Yi H,Park M,Cho N,Kimm K,Shin C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although atypical antipsychotics have been associated with improvements in cognitive function in schizophrenia, the neurochemical basis for such effects is not well understood. Candidate neurotransmitter systems primarily involve dopamine and serotonin. The current study explored this issue by examining the cognitive ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tyson PJ,Laws KR,Flowers KA,Tyson A,Mortimer AM

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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：:The authors compared perceived stress in subgroups of patients defined by vulnerability (high and low) and disorder (somatoform and dissociative). A total of 30 patients each of somatoform and dissociative disorders diagnosed according to the classification of mental and behavioral disorders criteria were assessed wit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Irpati AS,Avasthi A,Sharan P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusions associated with cerebrovascular diseases have been sporadically reported. Although both psychiatrists and neurologists attempted to link delusions with anatomical locations of the brain lesion, comorbid psychiatric and neurological disorders make the interpretation of delusions difficult. The purpose of the ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Su KP,Hsu CY,Hsieh SC,Shen WW

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine general practitioners' (GPs') diagnosis of a case vignette presenting both anxiety and depression symptoms, and to understand their treatment preferences for the case. METHODS:A total of 1193 copies of a questionnaire were sent to doctors in primary care settings throughout Thailand. The questionnaire ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lotrakul M,Saipanish R

更新日期：2009-02-01 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

abstract：AIM:Impulsivity, which significantly affects social adaptation, is an important target behavioral characteristic in interventions for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Typically, people are willing to wait longer to acquire greater rewards. Impulsivity in ADHD may be associated with brain dysfunction in ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Todokoro A,Tanaka SC,Kawakubo Y,Yahata N,Ishii-Takahashi A,Nishimura Y,Kano Y,Ohtake F,Kasai K

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:A 23-year-old Japanese woman was brought to the emergency department about 6.5 h after taking liquid and later a half tablet purchased on the street. About 4.5 h prior to presentation, she displayed excited and disorganized behavior. On examination, she was not alert or oriented, with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13,...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Itokawa M,Iwata K,Takahashi M,Sugihara G,Sasaki T,Abe Y,Uno M,Hobo M,Jitoku D,Inoue K,Arai M,Yasuda I,Shintani M

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:A female patient exhibiting functional hearing loss in her left ear demonstrated reduced amplitude of P3 component in event-related potentials (ERP) to left monaural stimulation, with preserved N1 and N2 components to stimulation of either ear. This result suggested that stimuli in the affected ear were conducted succ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukuda M,Hata A,Niwa S,Hiramatsu K,Yokokoji M,Hayashida S,Itoh K,Nakagome K,Iwanami A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00