Cognitive functions in bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia: comparison.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to identify the characteristics of temperament and character in personality disorder symptoms in the young male general population. A total of 585 male subjects from the same community were included in the study (mean age, 19.06 +/- 0.26 years). There was no difference in socioeconomic...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ha JH,Kim EJ,Abbey SE,Kim TS

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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：:An overview of the most important older and newer results regarding the relationship between violent and criminal behavior on the one hand and schizophrenic illness on the other hand is presented. Four different methods are available to study this relationship: (i) study of the prevalence of mental illness in criminal...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Modestin J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this study was to examine the association of Internet overuse with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). METHODS:A total of 2336 high school students in South Korea (boys, 57.5%; girls, 42.5%) completed the structured questionnaire. The severity of Internet addiction was evaluated using Young's Intern...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Choi K,Son H,Park M,Han J,Kim K,Lee B,Gwak H

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：:We conducted a longitudinal study to identify risk factors for postpartum depression. At the late phase of pregnancy, 627 pregnant women agreed to take the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Trait (STAIT) test and to remain in the study until 4 months postpartum. At 1, 3 and 4 months postpartum, they took the Edinburgh Pos...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tamaki R,Murata M,Okano T

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：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：AIM:It is difficult to diagnose dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) because it exhibits clinical and neuropathological overlap with both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The α-synuclein protein is a major component of Lewy bodies, and accumulation of α-synuclein aggregates causes synaptic dysfunction in DLB. Ep...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Funahashi Y,Yoshino Y,Yamazaki K,Mori Y,Mori T,Ozaki Y,Sao T,Ochi S,Iga JI,Ueno SI

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the neural substrates underlying event-related potential (ERP) abnormalities, with respect to the generators of the ERP components in depressed patients. Using an oddball paradigm, ERP from auditory stimuli were recorded from 22 unmedicated patients with current depr...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kawasaki T,Tanaka S,Wang J,Hokama H,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty case reports published in Japan that refer to psychiatric symptoms accompanying interferon (IFN) therapy were examined. These papers covered a total of 49 cases. We categorized these 49 cases into 35 cases of mood disorder, 10 of delirium and four of psychotic disorder. The key findings of our study of these ca...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nozaki O,Takagi C,Takaoka K,Takata T,Yoshida M

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：AIMS:The aim of the present study was to examine how copy organization mediated immediate recall among patients with schizophrenia using the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF). METHODS:The Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS) was applied for qualitative and quantitative analyses of ROCF performances. Subjec...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kim MS,Namgoong Y,Youn T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetoencephalographic (MEG) counterpart (MMNm) are an established biological index in schizophrenia research. MMN in response to duration and frequency deviants may have differential relevance to the pathophysiology and clinical stages of schizophrenia. MEG has advantage...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Suga M,Nishimura Y,Kawakubo Y,Yumoto M,Kasai K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Long-term use of methamphetamine could induce psychosis, but consequences with regards to intelligence have seldom been investigated. Long-term use of alcohol could also result in intellectual deterioration. METHODS:The IQ of 34 methamphetamine-induced psychosis (MIP) patients (age, 28.7 +/- 6.1 years) and 34 alc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lin SK,Huang MC,Lin HC,Pan CH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Category and letter verbal fluency tests are widely used for dementia detection and severity measure. Performances of these tasks have been regarded to be mainly associated with the left frontal lobe function. However, some recent studies suggest that there are different neuropsychological bases between these two task...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kitabayashi Y,Ueda H,Tsuchida H,Iizumi H,Narumoto J,Nakamura K,Kita H,Fukui K

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：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：: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：:The present study investigates the etiological roles of premilitary risk factors, military entry conditions, war zone experiences, dissociative reactions to war zone experiences and homecoming reception in the development of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Croatian veterans. A total of 150 Croatian ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Vuksić-Mihaljević Z,Mandić N,Bensić M,Mihaljević S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lifetime prevalence of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is high at 3-13%, but there have been only limited reports investigating the clinical features of this disorder in a large number of Japanese patients. The authors have conducted a retrospective, chart review study of 52 patients with SAD and obtained the follow...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shindo M,Shioiri T,Kuwabara H,Maruyama M,Tamura R,Someya T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Various eating-related problems are commonly observed among people with dementia, and these problems place a huge burden on the caregivers. An appropriate classification of these problems is important in order to understand their underlying mechanisms and to develop a therapeutic approach for managing them. The ai...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinagawa S,Honda K,Kashibayashi T,Shigenobu K,Nakayama K,Ikeda M

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：: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