State and trait markers of emotionally charged visual event-related potentials (P300) in drug-naïve schizophrenia.

abstract：:A modified version of the Waldrop scale (WS) was used to assess the prevalence of minor physical anomalies in schizophrenic patients (n = 71) and healthy controls (n = 65). The mean total WS score was 3.32 (SD 1.98) for the schizophrenic patients, significantly higher than that for the controls (2.19, SD 1.18). Minor ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hata K,Iida J,Iwasaka H,Negoro HI,Ueda F,Kishimoto T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the differences between the results of an automatic sleep analysis system and inspection decision. Subjects were 10 males (average age 21.6 years). One section consists of 20 s records. The sections that deviated from the algorithm could not be decided. Each sleep stage decided by automatic analysis was co...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hashizume Y,Kuwahara H,Uchimura N,Mukai M,Shirakawa S,Satomura T,Takeuchi N,Tanaka J,Maeda H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This 12-week open-label study was designed to investigate the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of a direct switch from a conventional depot to long-acting injectable risperidone in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. METHODS:Men or women from 18 to 65 years old with a diagnosis of schizophrenia...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Lai YC,Huang MC,Chen CH,Tsai CJ,Pan CH,Chiu CC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the difference in the perception of family functioning measured on the Family Assessment Device (FAD) by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV diagnoses (i.e. schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder) and by raters (patients and family members). The subjects wer...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Koyama A,Akiyama T,Miyake Y,Kurita H

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive survey of problems encountered by foreign students of the University of the Ryukyus and the resulting levels of stress was carried out in order to determine the main stressors hindering academic progress and personal adjustment. Subjectively perceived stress levels after arrival in Japan were obtained fro...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Randall M,Naka K,Yamamoto K,Nakamoto H,Arakaki H,Ogura C

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：: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：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：:Surgical management and strategies for the supplementary motor area (SMA) epilepsy are described. The following is our preoperative evaluations. The steps include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), interictal dipole tracing (DT), subdural electrodes mapping, measurements of movement-related cortical potenti...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamane F,Muragaki Y,Maruyama T,Okada Y,Iseki H,Ikeda A,Homma I,Hori T

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：: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：: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：:This study investigated the relationship between napping and night-time sleep patterns in junior high and high school students. A questionnaire concerning sleep-related lifestyle was given to about 10,000 junior high and high school students. Approximately 50% of the junior high and high school students take at least ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukuda K,Ishihara K

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:In order to clarify the characteristics of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), BPSD among the severities of Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) in 74 patients with AD were compared using the Neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI). The result, when compared betw...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shimabukuro J,Awata S,Matsuoka H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autopsy case of malnutrition with spinal tract degeneration confined to the bilateral posterior columns is reported. The patient had schizophrenia in adolescence, and suffered from aplastic anemia in late middle age. Subsequently, he took little food due to delusions for 18 months until his death. He had malnutriti...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukutani Y,Katsukawa K,Ishizaki K,Takeshima T,Kobayashi K,Yamaguchi N,Nakamura I,Watanabe K

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess autistic symptom differences between high-functioning atypical autism (atypical symptomatology) (HAA; IQ >/= 70) and childhood autism (HCA), 53 HAA children (mean: 6.0 +/- 0.5 years) were compared with 21 HCA children (mean: 8.2 +/- 1.1 years) on the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-Tokyo version (CARS-TV). Bec...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kanai C,Koyama T,Kato S,Miyamoto Y,Osada H,Kurita H

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Two case reports of patients suffering from burning mouth syndrome (BMS), a type of somatoform disorder, who were treated with olanzapine are discussed. One case was a 54-year-old female with BMS who failed to respond to milnacipran treatment. Olanzapine (2.5 mg/day) brought about dramatic improvement in the patient's...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ueda N,Kodama Y,Hori H,Umene W,Sugita A,Nakano H,Yoshimura R,Nakamura J

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：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：:Telemedicine is the provision of professional medical services from sites removed from the patient. This study was conducted in order to assess the reliability of psychiatric evaluations via video-consultation. The inter-rater reliability was determined for each interviewing condition by employing the reliability-test...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Matsuura S,Hosaka T,Yukiyama T,Ogushi Y,Okada Y,Haruki Y,Nakamura M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of tardive dystonia are reported. The first case was an 18-year-old schizophrenic woman suffering from parkinsonism and hypotension induced by antipsychotic drugs. Risperidone (4 mg/day) was added to her drug regimen and after increasing the dosage to 6 mg/day, she began to exhibit retrocollis. The second ca...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tachikawa H,Suzuki T,Kawanishi Y,Hori M,Hori T,Shiraishi H

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：: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：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：:The validity of two kinds of brief intelligence tests for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated. In study 1, five short forms of the Japanese Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (JWAIS-R) were administered to 102 AD patients. The results showed that the intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura H,Nakanishi M,Furukawa TA,Hamanaka T,Tokudome S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00