abstract：:Subjective sleep feelings and motor activity were measured in seven healthy elderly subjects for 6 days. The subjects were exposed to bright light (6000 lux) for 30 min in the morning or instructed to sit in front of a desktop lighting device without light. The average level of motor activity during the night was sign...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kohsaka M,Fukuda N,Kobayashi R,Honma H,Sakakibara S,Koyama E,Nakano O,Matsubara H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a questionnaire survey among 1329 first-trimester pregnant women, social support providers were divided by factor analysis into husband, 'premarital network' (parents and friends) and 'postmarital network' (children and mother-in-law), while social support contents were divided into 'given' (emotional, informationa...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kitamura T,Toda MA,Shima S,Sugawara K,Sugawara M

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:We describe the test-retest reliability of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire: Revised (PDQ-R), which was developed to assess DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD). Thirty patients, diagnosed clinically with PD, filled out the PDQ-R twice at 1 month intervals after having undergone 8 weeks of treatment leading to...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Uehara T,Sakado K,Sato T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial magnetic resonance (MR) images were obtained for 18 months in the follow-up of a patient with delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The characteristic findings on T2-weighted MR images (T2WI) were high intensity in the bilateral periventricular white matter and pallidal regions, and...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Inagaki T,Ishino H,Seno H,Umegae N,Aoyama T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to test specific hypotheses regarding volumetric changes of the neocortex between 10 female trichotillomania (TTM) subjects and 10 female normal controls. A standard three-dimensional (3-D) brain coordinate system was imposed over each newly acquired native magnetic resonance imagi...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Grachev ID

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Nuclear polyadenylate polymerase from I activity in the brains of seizure-prone EL mice was significantly higher than in seizure-non-susceptible progenitor ddY mice. This finding may be essential in acquiring susceptibility to seizures, since there was no significant difference between EL(S) mice and those that did no...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Kioka T,Yamagami S,Mui K,Onishi H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We had investigated the clinical characteristics of panic disorder (PD) in a Japanese outpatient population comprised of more than 250 patients diagnosed as having PD during a 13-year study period and observed that some PD patients had both panic attacks (PA) and limited symptom panic attacks (LPA). In the criteria fo...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shioiri T,Someya T,Fujii K,Noguchi T,Takahashi S

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：: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：:Odor perception has been studied in patients with various mental disorders; however, no consensus has been reached as to its detection, identification, or pleasantness/unpleasantness of odors especially in patients with depression. One hundred and nineteen normal elderly individuals living at home were exposed to odor...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Satoh S,Morita N,Matsuzaki I,Konishi T,Nakano T,Minoshita S,Arizono H,Saito S,Ayabe AS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial stage of Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a neuropathological change in the entorhinal cortex. In a previous study it was shown that rats with excitotoxic lesion of entorhinal cortex showed an impaired acquisition of passive and active avoidance responses. In this study a rat with excitotoxic lesion...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Miwa C,Ueki A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulovacuolar degeneration (GVD) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) are neuropathological features in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The molecular mechanism of GVD formation remains unknown. Recent immunohistochemical investigations suggested a potential link of NFT to GVD formation. Enzyme histochemical studies and elect...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Ikegami K,Kimura T,Katsuragi S,Ono T,Yamamoto H,Miyamoto E,Miyakawa T

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient exhibiting functional hearing loss in her left ear demonstrated reduced amplitude of P3 component in event-related potentials (ERP) to left monaural stimulation, with preserved N1 and N2 components to stimulation of either ear. This result suggested that stimuli in the affected ear were conducted succ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Fukuda M,Hata A,Niwa S,Hiramatsu K,Yokokoji M,Hayashida S,Itoh K,Nakagome K,Iwanami A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with atypical multiple sclerosis (MS) with clear concentric structure was studied using high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This case was considered to be Baló's concentric sclerosis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed diffuse multiple concentric demyelinating lesions in the bilateral centrum semiova...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Morioka C,Nameta K,Komatsu Y,Tsujio T,Kondo H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article demonstrates the clinical application and the efficacy of relaxation techniques in general hospital psychiatry in Japan. During April to December 1993, 20 patients were treated with progressive muscle relaxation and "modified' autogenic training therapies. The targeted symptoms were anxiety attacks...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Hosaka T,Yamamoto K,Ikeda K,Taniyama F,Yanagisawa J

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:At present, in the field of clinical epilepsy, it has been established that single proton emission computed tomography (SPECT) is useful for the regional determination of epileptic foci. In particular, it seems to be of great advantage to the field of clinical epilepsy that epileptic foci situation in the deep regions...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Jibiki I

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiepileptic drugs (AED) were discontinued in 55 epileptics who had been free from seizures treated with AED, in accordance with the following criteria and procedures. (i) A reduction in AED commences when patients have been free from seizures for at least 2 years and epileptic discharges have also disappeared in rep...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Nakazawa Y,Ishida S,Maeda H,Sakurai S,Motooka H

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the relationship between physical illness and suicide, reviews the studies of attempters and completers of suicide in general hospitals, and discusses those studies which have investigated the characteristics of patients in the medical setting with suicidal ideation. Study of suicidal ideation in a ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Berger D

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:The clinical effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on the morbidity of paranoid schizophrenic patients were assessed by positron emission tomography (PET) and plasma biochemistry studies before and after ECT. The present study included five patients whose average age was 41.4 years. The average duration of illnes...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Uesugi H,Toyoda J,Iio M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic methamphetamine psychotics became a major problem in Japan after World War II. On one hand, the clinical symptoms of chronic methamphetamine psychotics were noted to resemble those of schizophrenics quite closely but, on the other hand, their respective personality profiles appeared to differ. Recent research ...

journal_title：Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

authors： Shimazono Y,Matsushima E

更新日期：1995-03-01 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