Effect of age and gender on schizotypal personality traits in the normal population.

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：:Most women experience sleep changes across the menstrual cycle. We applied the ultra-short sleep-wake schedule to healthy females to compare their 24-h sleep propensity rhythms in the follicular and luteal phases. The daytime (09.00-16.30 h) subjective sleepiness and the number of slow wave sleep-containing nap trials...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shibui K,Uchiyama M,Okawa M,Kudo Y,Kim K,Kamei Y,Hayakawa T,Akamatsu T,Ohta K,Ishibashi K

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：AIMS:Earlier comparisons of cognitive impairment among patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have found a largely similar profile of deficits, but results have varied between studies. This prompted the current attempt at another such comparison. METHODS:Executive functions, memory, IQ, attention-concentrati...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Pradhan BK,Chakrabarti S,Nehra R,Mankotia A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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: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：AIM:Serotonin receptor 2C (HTR2C) has been postulated as being involved in the etiology or pathophysiology of mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia. We previously revealed the altered mRNA expression and RNA editing of HTR2C in the postmortem brains of patients with mental disord...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Bundo M,Iwamoto K,Yamada K,Yoshikawa T,Kato T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of a group structured intervention on the mental and physical discomfort and immune function of 20 family caregivers. A structured intervention for caregivers consists of five sessions, each of which lasts 90 min. This was a modified version of the program th...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hosaka T,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：: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：:A 63-year-old man was admitted with progressive left hemiparesis and left homonymous hemianopsia of 1 month's duration. During the 2 months before admission, he had suffered from slowly progressive dementia. The diagnosis of right-sided watershed (WS) infarction was made. He exhibited slow progression of dementia and ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hashiguchi S,Mine H,Ide M,Kawachi Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Recently there has been increasing evidence that free oxygen species may play an important role in the pathophysiology of various neuropsychiatric disorders. The present study was performed to assess the changes in plasma nitric oxide (NO) levels in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compared to age- an...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Atmaca M,Tezcan E,Kuloglu M,Ustundag B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizotypy can be seen as an indicator of a predisposition to schizophrenia. It is possible that schizotypal people have an abnormal self-consciousness, especially with regard to the sense of self-agency. Students were rated using the Schizotypy Traits Questionnaire (STA). They were asked to press a button, which gene...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Asai T,Tanno Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：AIM:We investigated preclinical abnormalities as revealed by transcranial sonography (TCS) in patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) compared with those revealed in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) or Parkinson's disease (PD) and in normal controls. METHODS:Twenty-two pat...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Li X,Xue S,Jia S,Zhou Z,Qiao Y,Hou C,Wei K,Zheng W,Rong P,Jiao J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the hypnotic effects of 10 mg melatonin and placebo, which were administered at 10.00 h, according to a single-blind crossover design, on an 8-h diurnal sleep from 11.00 to 19.00 h, following a full night of sleep. The subjects were six healthy male students, each of whom underwent polysomnogra...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsumoto M

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：: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：AIM:This preliminary study was performed to test the reliability and validity of the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB), developed by the National Institute of Mental Health MATRICS initiative, as an assessment tool in a Japanese-languag...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kaneda Y,Ohmori T,Okahisa Y,Sumiyoshi T,Pu S,Ueoka Y,Takaki M,Nakagome K,Sora I

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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 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：: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：:To estimate the prevalence, severity, and treatment of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn; DSM-IV) mental disorders in community populations in Japan, face-to-face household surveys were conducted in four community populations in Japan. A total of 1663 community adults responded (overall re...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

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

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Prior structural magnetic resonance imaging studies demonstrated atypical gray matter characteristics in siblings of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, they did not clarify which aspect of gray matter is related to the endophenotype (i.e., genetic vulnerability) of ASD. Further, because they ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamagata B,Itahashi T,Fujino J,Ohta H,Takashio O,Nakamura M,Kato N,Mimura M,Hashimoto RI,Aoki YY

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of social support may be a trait-like construct stemming from the current personality and early environment as well as a summation of the actual support perceived. A total of 220 community individuals were examined for the effects of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) items and early life experienc...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kitamura T,Watanabe K,Takara N,Hiyama K,Yasumiya R,Fujihara S

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:After discussing some defining questions concerning dignified death, active and passive euthanasia, assisted suicide and the criteria for free will and informed consent, the juridical situation in Germany is reported. Passive euthanasia according to the patients' free will is accepted, assisted suicide, active euthana...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mundt C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic temporal slow waves are considered to be associated with mild cerebrovascular dysfunction. However, electroencephalogram (EEG) changes have not been consistently described by some investigators and correlations inferred on the basis of such data remain inconclusive. In the present study, we examined previousl...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inui K,Motomura E,Kaige H,Nomura S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00