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abstract：AIM: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of apathy, and to compare vascular mild cognitive impairment (vMCI), amnestic MCI (amMCI), and other type using Clinical Assessment for Spontaneity (CAS). METHODS: Agreement to take part in the study was obtained from 590 community dwellers, aged ≥75 years livi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura K,Kasai M,Ouchi Y,Nakatsuka M,Tanaka N,Kato Y,Nakai M,Meguro K

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：AIM:Although peripheral low-grade inflammation and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels have been implicated in schizophrenia (SCZ), the interactions between them remain to be fully revealed. We aimed to compare BDNF and cytokines in patients with SCZ and healthy controls (HC). Additionally, we aimed to inve...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Zhou Y,Peng W,Wang J,Zhou W,Zhou Y,Ying B

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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：AIMS:The reasons for accessing and maintaining access to mental health services in Japan may be different to those in other countries. Using the World Health Organization World Mental Health Japan survey data, this study investigated the prevalence of sociodemographic correlates of barriers for the use of, reasons for ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kanehara A,Umeda M,Kawakami N,World Mental Health Japan Survey Group.

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：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 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：: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：AIM:Neuroimaging-based multivariate pattern-recognition methods have been successfully used to develop diagnostic algorithms to distinguish patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) from healthy controls (HC). We developed and evaluated the accuracy of a multivariate classification method for the differentiation of...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ramasubbu R,Brown EC,Marcil LD,Talai AS,Forkert ND

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using urethane-anaesthetized rats, the effects of acupunctural stimulation to the sacral segment on the urinary bladder activity and cortical electroencephalogram (EEG) were examined. The acupuncture suppressed urinary bladder activity in 36 of 68 trials. On many occasions (22/36 trials), suppression was accompanied b...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tanaka Y,Koyama Y,Jodo E,Kayama Y,Kawauchi A,Ukimura O,Miki T

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：AIM:The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS) and the utility of the PDSS as a screening tool for pathological daytime sleepiness in teenagers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and narcolepsy. METHODS:The PDSS was first administered ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yang CM,Huang YS,Song YC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic concepts of taijin-kyofu-sho (TKS) and social phobia, by comparing the clinical diagnosis of TKS and the operational diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd edition, revised; DSM-III-R). Three evaluators conducted s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakamura K,Kitanishi K,Miyake Y,Hashimoto K,Kubota M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of serotonin syndrome was determined by two different diagnostic criteria during clomipramine monotherapy. Incidence, determined by Sternbach's criteria, was 12.1% (8/66 patients), and that determined by the criteria of Dursun et al. was 3.0% (2/66 patients). The two patients who met the latter criteria also...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kudo K,Sasaki I,Tsuchiyama K,Akiyoshi J,Nagayama H,Fujii I

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Anesthesia is related to cognitive impairment and the risk for Alzheimer's disease. Hypothermia during anesthesia can lead to abnormal hyperphosphorylation of tau, which has been speculated to be involved in anesthesia-induced cognitive impairment. The aim of this study was to investigate whether maintenance of th...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Xiao H,Run X,Cao X,Su Y,Sun Z,Tian C,Sun S,Liang Z

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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

abstract：AIMS:Another structure in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) circuit may be the pituitary gland because of the fact that limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis abnormality has been reported in patients with OCD. There has been only one prior study, however, concerning pituitary volumetry, in which the s...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Atmaca M,Yildirim H,Ozler S,Koc M,Kara B,Sec S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper describes a 1-year follow-up of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and depression in an elderly minority population who experienced Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. METHODS:The PTSD Symptom Scale--Interview and the 10-item short form Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale were u...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chen YL,Hsu WY,Lai CS,Tang TC,Wang PW,Yeh YC,Huang MF,Yen CF,Chen CS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The neural substrate for the processing of gaze remains unknown. The aim of the present study was to clarify which hemisphere dominantly processes and whether bilateral hemispheres cooperate with each other in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention. METHODS:Twenty-eight normal subjects were tested. The non-p...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okada T,Sato W,Kubota Y,Toichi M,Murai T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to understand the sleep-wake cycle during the period from late pregnancy to about 3 months of postpartum by evaluating the number of actigraphic activities in four women (one multipara and three primi gravidae), and to compare the results with the findings from sleep logs. An irregularity...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinkoda H,Matsumoto K,Park YM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentrations of total, free and acylcarnitine were compared in 25 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and among age- and sex-matched normal controls by the new enzymatic cycling method in order to clarify whether the fatigue in MS might be due to possible carnitine-related fatty acid metabolic abnormalit...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukazawa T,Sasaki H,Kikuchi S,Hamada T,Tashiro K

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：: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：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：: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：AIM:In the present study, we investigated the changes in P3 component in the emotionally charged visual event-related potentials (ERP) in 30 drug-naïve schizophrenic patients for up to 1 year. METHODS:Visual oddball event-related potential was recorded from six recording sites for crying baby or smiling baby photograp...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mori K,Morita K,Shoji Y,Matsuoka T,Fujiki R,Uchimura N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00