abstract：:Four hours after having taken 10 ecstasy tablets a Grand Mal seizure occurred in a 19-year-old woman followed by coma, hyperthermia, tachycardia, tachypnea, and renal failure. After awakening she was oriented but presented with helplessness, disconcertion, hallucinations, panic attacks, and amnesic syndrome. Computed ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Finsterer J,Stöllberger C,Steger C,Kroiss A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:We have introduced behavior therapy as standard in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa and have modified the treatment program. At first, we used Fukamachi's activity restriction therapy (FT), followed by Token economy therapy (TET), which combined token economy with FT. Finally, we have developed Kyoto Prefectural...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Okamoto A,Yamashita T,Nagoshi Y,Masui Y,Wada Y,Kashima A,Arii I,Nakamura M,Fukui K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the effects of the bombing on the atomic bomb survivors' mental health, a mental health survey was conducted using a 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and a mail survey on atomic bomb exposure conditions and lifestyle using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 3526 atom...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Honda S,Shibata Y,Mine M,Imamura Y,Tagawa M,Nakane Y,Tomonaga M

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Both the influence of comorbid obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) on daytime sleepiness and its pathological mechanism in 10 narcoleptic patients was studied. Mild elevation of esophageal negative pressure and obstruction in the velopharyngeal area, as observed by upper airway magnetic resonance imaging...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inoue Y,Nanba K,Higami S,Honda Y,Takahashi Y,Arai H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the cause of idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD), magnetic resonance imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography of the brain were conducted on 20 patients with RBD. Blood flow in the upper portion of both sides of the frontal lobe and pons was significantly lower ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shirakawa S,Takeuchi N,Uchimura N,Ohyama T,Maeda H,Abe T,Ishibashi M,Ohshima Y,Ohshima H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients (35 men and two women) with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) without any known cardiovascular and lung diseases were examined by Doppler echocardiography. Eight of the 37 (21.6%) patients experienced daytime pulmonary hypertension (PH), and all of them had severe OSAHS with an ap...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Yamakawa H,Shiomi T,Sasanabe R,Hasegawa R,Ootake K,Banno K,Wakayama H,Katada M,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 448 patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), 40 patients (8.9%) had been involved in one or more automobile accidents during the preceding 5 years. The main cause of these accidents was falling asleep while driving. Excessive sleepiness during driving was associated with an Epworth sleepi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shiomi T,Arita AT,Sasanabe R,Banno K,Yamakawa H,Hasegawa R,Ozeki K,Okada M,Ito A

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:The objective of this study is to examine psychological/psychopathological characteristics of eating disorders and their subtypes through a combined administration of questionnaires and projective tests. Three questionnaires (Eating Disorder Inventory - 2, Social Adaptation Scale, Southern California University Eating...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Mizuta I,Inoue Y,Fukunaga T,Ishi R,Ogawa A,Takeda M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 71-year-old woman with an 11-year history of slowly progressive decline of motor speech. Normal clinical investigations including routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7, 8 and 10 years after the onset of speech dysfunction led to the suggestion of a psychogenic disorder. Extensive clini...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tebartz van Elst LH,Juengling FD,Kassubek J,Schmidtke K,Thiel T,Ebert D,Dykierek P,Hüll M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subjects of this study were 306 male alcoholics who lived in Osaka, Japan, and who were initially diagnosed with alcoholism at a psychiatric institution between 1972 and 1983. Follow-up studies were done on three occasions: 1 March 1985 (Time 1), 1 November 1988 (Time 2) and 1 March 1992 (Time 3). We followed up 2...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Noda T,Imamichi H,Kawata A,Hirano K,Ando T,Iwata Y,Yoneda H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test different definitions of depressive mixed state (DMX) (major depressive episode (MDE) with some concurrent hypomanic symptoms), to find which one could better define DMX. Unipolar and bipolar II MDE outpatients (n = 168) were interviewed with the DSM-IV Structured Clinical Interview. ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Benazzi F

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：: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：:The effects of phenobarbital (PB; doses, 5, 10, and 25 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (i.p.)) and zonisamide (ZNS; doses, 30, 75, and 150 mg/kg, i.p.) on nitric oxide (NO) production, and those of coadministration of PB (5 mg/kg, i.p.) and ZNS (75 mg/kg, i.p.) on monoamines in the brain of the seizure-susceptible EL mouse w...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tominaga M,Nagatomo I,Uchida M,Hashiguchi W,Akasaki Y,Takigawa M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between panic attacks and hostility in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Thirty-two patients with a minimum 2-year history of treatment for schizophrenia were interviewed. The patients took mood stablizers lithium, carbamazepine and valproate adjunctively fo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Chen CY,Liu CY,Yang YY

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to analyze fractal structures of adult heart rate (HR) variability during a nap. Fractal analysis was carried out in one case over consecutive 10-min time series of HR, which were simultaneously recorded with electroencephalogram. Scaling relationships showed cross-over patterns ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shono H,Shono M,Takasaki M,Iwasaka T,Sugimori H

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:A longitudinal study to analyse the diurnal variations in baseline fetal heart rate (FHR) and sustained fetal tachycardia (SFT) in twin pregnancy was performed on one dichorionic twin. Twenty-four hour FHR recordings on twins were made at 32, 34 and 36 weeks of gestation simultaneously. Significant diurnal variations ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Muro M,Shono H,Shono M,Ito Y,Iwasaka T

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia with clinical symptoms that include punching, kicking, yelling and leaping out of bed in sleep. Polysomnographic (PSG) finding showed REM sleep without muscle atonia. Clonazepam is generally used for treating RBD symptoms but melatonin was reported to be...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Takeuchi N,Uchimura N,Hashizume Y,Mukai M,Etoh Y,Yamamoto K,Kotorii T,Ohshima H,Ohshima M,Maeda H

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:To explore more fully the relationship between neuronal death and neurofibrillary degeneration, unaffected neurons, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (i-NFT) and extracellular NFT (e-NFT) in 22 patients with late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) were morphometrically evaluated in eight subdivisions of the h...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukutani Y,Cairns NJ,Shiozawa M,Sasaki K,Sudo S,Isaki K,Lantos PL

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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

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：:In order to investigate mutual interactions between neuronal discharges in the mesencepahlic reticular formation, relative power contributions (RPC) were estimated during sleep-wake cycles and serotonin (5HT)-depleted conditions by the administration of parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA). The RPC for most of the neurons d...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kodama T,Honda Y,Nakao M,Sato S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred and twelve students aged from 6 to 18 years were administered the morningness-eveningness questionnaire and a sleep log. The mean morningness-eveningness score decreased with grade; this decrease was significant around the seventh grade. The habitual waking time showed no difference among grades but the h...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shinkoda H,Matsumoto K,Park YM,Nagashima H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the relationship between the level of daytime activities and nocturnal sleep in the elderly using the wrist actigraph and ambulatory polysomnograph system. Five male and five female subjects (mean age = 73.8+/-3.05 years; range 69-77 years) participated in this study. The level of daytime activ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shirota A,Tamaki M,Hayashi M,Hori T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen saturation was measured in 37 patients with sleep-related breathing disorders over 2 nights: after alcohol intake and under control conditions. Both the number of 3% oxygen desaturation per hour (ODI3) and the lowest saturation (LSAT) were significantly aggravated after alcohol ingestion. Oxygen saturation was ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Tsutsumi W,Miyazaki S,Itasaka Y,Togawa K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00