T A Furukawa

Summary

Affiliation: Nagoya City University
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Are the cochrane group registers comprehensive? A case study of Japanese psychiatry trials
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601 Japan
    BMC Med Res Methodol 2:6. 2002
  2. ncbi Sensitization of catastrophic cognition in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder
    Yumiko Noda
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:70. 2007
  3. ncbi Change in quality of life and their predictors in the long-term follow-up after group cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: a prospective cohort study
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 10:81. 2010
  4. ncbi Group cognitive behavior therapy for Japanese patients with social anxiety disorder: preliminary outcomes and their predictors
    Junwen Chen
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:69. 2007
  5. ncbi Combination of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines versus either therapy alone for panic disorder: a systematic review
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:18. 2007
  6. ncbi Interoceptive hypersensitivity and interoceptive exposure in patients with panic disorder: specificity and effectiveness
    Kiyoe Lee
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 6:32. 2006
  7. ncbi Time to recovery of an inception cohort with hitherto untreated unipolar major depressive episodes
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Br J Psychiatry 177:331-5. 2000
  8. ncbi Meta-analyses and megatrials: neither is the infallible, universal standard
    Toshi Furukawa
    Evidence-Based Psychiatry Center, Nagoya City University, Japan
    Evid Based Ment Health 7:34-5. 2004
  9. ncbi Imputing response rates from means and standard deviations in meta-analyses
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan
    Int Clin Psychopharmacol 20:49-52. 2005
  10. ncbi Long-term treatment of depression with antidepressants: a systematic narrative review
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan
    Can J Psychiatry 52:545-52. 2007

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Publications70

  1. ncbi Are the cochrane group registers comprehensive? A case study of Japanese psychiatry trials
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601 Japan
    BMC Med Res Methodol 2:6. 2002
    ..The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is one attempt to remedy this and now contains more than 300,000 citations. However we are still unsure if it provides comprehensive coverage, particularly for non-English trials...
  2. ncbi Sensitization of catastrophic cognition in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder
    Yumiko Noda
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:70. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Change in quality of life and their predictors in the long-term follow-up after group cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: a prospective cohort study
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 10:81. 2010
    ....
  4. ncbi Group cognitive behavior therapy for Japanese patients with social anxiety disorder: preliminary outcomes and their predictors
    Junwen Chen
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:69. 2007
    ..The present pilot study aimed to evaluate CBT program for SAD which was originally developed for Western patients, among Japanese patients...
  5. ncbi Combination of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines versus either therapy alone for panic disorder: a systematic review
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:18. 2007
    ..The efficacy of combined psychotherapy and benzodiazepine treatment for panic disorder is still unclear despite its widespread use. The present systematic review aims to examine its efficacy compared with either monotherapy alone...
  6. ncbi Interoceptive hypersensitivity and interoceptive exposure in patients with panic disorder: specificity and effectiveness
    Kiyoe Lee
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 6:32. 2006
    ..We examined the effectiveness of various interoceptive exposure exercises using the Body Sensations Questionnaire (BSQ) (Chambless et al., 1984)...
  7. ncbi Time to recovery of an inception cohort with hitherto untreated unipolar major depressive episodes
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Br J Psychiatry 177:331-5. 2000
    ....
  8. ncbi Meta-analyses and megatrials: neither is the infallible, universal standard
    Toshi Furukawa
    Evidence-Based Psychiatry Center, Nagoya City University, Japan
    Evid Based Ment Health 7:34-5. 2004
  9. ncbi Imputing response rates from means and standard deviations in meta-analyses
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan
    Int Clin Psychopharmacol 20:49-52. 2005
    ..This would allow a more robust and clinically interpretable estimation of the true, underlying treatment effect to be made...
  10. ncbi Long-term treatment of depression with antidepressants: a systematic narrative review
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan
    Can J Psychiatry 52:545-52. 2007
    ..To examine the available scientific evidence for answers to clinically relevant questions on the effectiveness and tolerability of antidepressant drugs (ADs) for the long-term treatment of depression...
  11. ncbi Cross-cultural equivalence in depression assessment: Japan-Europe-North American study
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 112:279-85. 2005
    ..We therefore examined cross-cultural consistency of factor structure of HRSD...
  12. ncbi Imputing missing standard deviations in meta-analyses can provide accurate results
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601 Japan
    J Clin Epidemiol 59:7-10. 2006
    ..Some meta-analysts substitute them by those reported in other studies, either from another meta-analysis or from other studies in the same meta-analysis. But the validity of such practices has never been empirically examined...
  13. ncbi Sources of bias in diagnostic accuracy studies and the diagnostic process
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    CMAJ 174:481-2. 2006
  14. ncbi Psychotherapy plus antidepressant for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: systematic review
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioural Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Br J Psychiatry 188:305-12. 2006
    ..Panic disorder can be treated with psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy or a combination of both...
  15. ncbi Definitions of recovery and outcomes of major depression: results from a 10-year follow-up
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:35-40. 2008
    ..Consensus operational definitions for symptomatic remission and recovery of a major depressive episode have been proposed but only irregularly followed...
  16. ncbi Can pill placebo augment cognitive-behavior therapy for panic disorder?
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 7:73. 2007
    ..Whether psychotherapy plus pill placebo is the same as psychotherapy alone is an empirical question which however has to date never been examined systematically...
  17. ncbi Is antidepressant-benzodiazepine combination therapy clinically more useful? A meta-analytic study
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    J Affect Disord 65:173-7. 2001
    ..However, benzodiazepines themselves have little or no antidepressive effects and we lack firm evidence for or against this combination therapy. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomized controlled trials to date...
  18. ncbi Discrepancies among megatrials
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, 467 8601, Nagoya, Japan
    J Clin Epidemiol 53:1193-9. 2000
    ..These findings suggest that taking megatrials as the gold standard can be problematic and that there is no substitute for clear and hard thinking for any study, be it a meta-analysis or a megatrial...
  19. ncbi Assessment of mood: guides for clinicians
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    J Psychosom Res 68:581-9. 2010
    ..This article focuses on assessment scales for mood (depression, mania)...
  20. ncbi Evidence-based guidelines for interpretation of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuhocho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Depress Anxiety 26:922-9. 2009
    ..In order for a clinical scale to be useful, we need a guideline for interpreting its scores and their changes, and for defining clinical change points such as response and remission...
  21. ncbi How many well vs. unwell days can you expect over 10 years, once you become depressed?
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 119:290-7. 2009
    ..Prognostic studies of major depression have mainly focused on episode remission and relapse, and only a limited number of studies have examined long-term course of depressive symptomatology at threshold and subthreshold levels...
  22. ncbi Parents, personality or partner? Correlates of marital relationships
    Toshiaki A Furukawa
    Dept of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan
    Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 37:164-8. 2002
    ..Our previous analyses demonstrated the significant role of marital relations on the woman's emotional status among a cohort of 61 married Japanese couples with a history of two consecutive spontaneous abortions...
  23. ncbi Videotaped experiments to drop safety behaviors and self-focused attention for patients with social anxiety disorder: do they change subjective and objective evaluations of anxiety and performance?
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
    J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 40:202-10. 2009
    ..Dropping SB and SFA, however, was unable to completely correct the cognitive distortion because the subjective ratings were still significantly worse than the objective ratings...
  24. ncbi The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey Japan
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:152-8. 2008
    ..The Japanese versions of the K6 and K10 thus demonstrated screening performances essentially equivalent to those of the original English versions...
  25. ncbi Meta-analysis of effects and side effects of low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression: systematic review
    Toshi A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    BMJ 325:991. 2002
    ..To compare the effects and side effects of low dosage tricyclic antidepressants with placebo and with standard dosage tricyclics in acute phase treatment of depression...
  26. ncbi A polydiagnostic study of depressive disorders according to DSM-IV and 23 classical diagnostic systems
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 53:387-96. 1999
    ..3) Comparisons of the unique diagnostic systems such as those by Leonhard, Winokur and Berner warrant further studies on their validity...
  27. ncbi Treatment received by depressed patients in Japan and its determinants: naturalistic observation from a multi-center collaborative follow-up study
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, 467 8601, Nagoya, Japan
    J Affect Disord 60:173-9. 2000
    ..We aimed to examine the treatment received by patients with major depression in Japan and to elucidate any predictor of their treatment level...
  28. ncbi Course and outcome of depressive episodes: comparison between bipolar, unipolar and subthreshold depression
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Psychiatry Res 96:211-20. 2000
    ..In our sample, patients with depressive disorder not otherwise specified appeared to suffer both symptomatologically and functionally as much as patients with major mood disorders...
  29. ncbi Non-fearful vs. fearful panic attacks: a general population study from the National Comorbidity Survey
    Junwen Chen
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan
    J Affect Disord 112:273-8. 2009
    ..The present study aims to clarify and expand the previous findings including the prevalence and characteristics of non-fearful panic attacks by using the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) database...
  30. ncbi Early parental separation experiences among patients with bipolar disorder and major depression: a case-control study
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City, University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    J Affect Disord 52:85-91. 1999
    ..The present study aims to examine this old, yet unresolved, question among the Japanese...
  31. ncbi Personality, social support, coping and emotional distress after repeated spontaneous abortions
    S Hori
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 23:133-40. 2002
    ..These findings suggest that martial and social support are important in determining the level of psychiatric morbidity after repeated abortions...
  32. ncbi Time to recurrence after recovery from major depressive episodes and its predictors
    T Kanai
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychol Med 33:839-45. 2003
    ..However, the sobering fact remains that less than half of the patients can expect to remain virtually symptom-free for 2 years or more after recovery from the depressive episode...
  33. ncbi Adequacy of continuation and maintenance treatments for major depression in Japan
    Akiko Fujita
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    J Psychopharmacol 22:153-6. 2008
    ..At maintenance phase immediately before relapse, average dosage was 42.0 (SD = 74.7) mg/day and 83% were prescribed inadequate doses. There is gross under-treatment of depression during continuation and maintenance phases in Japan...
  34. ncbi Symptomatic recovery and social functioning in major depression
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 103:257-61. 2001
    ..The same trends were observed for SAS-SR scores. CONCLUSION: We can expect further amelioration in social adjustment after symptomatic remission and recovery of major depressive episodes...
  35. ncbi The performance of the K6 and K10 screening scales for psychological distress in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychol Med 33:357-62. 2003
    ..Precision of individual-level prediction is greatly improved by using polychotomous rather than dichotomous classification...
  36. ncbi Cross-cultural evaluation of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale in Japan
    Ikuyo Yamamoto
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Depress Anxiety 20:17-22. 2004
    ..The present findings support the cross-cultural generalizability of panic disorder symptomatology and of the PDSS, in particular...
  37. ncbi Psychosocial predictors of successful delivery after unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortions: a cohort study
    Y Nakano
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 109:440-6. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Psychosocial variables (depression, attribution and social support) are robust predictors of the prospective pregnancy and suggest possible points of intervention in couples with RSA...
  38. ncbi Two dimensions of anosognosia in patients with Alzheimer's disease: reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Anosognosia Questionnaire for Dementia (AQ-D)
    Junko Sato
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Nagoya City, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:672-7. 2007
    ..The knowledge that various factors may have different effects on different domains of anosognosia in patients with AD may serve as useful information for clinicians assessing anosognosia in AD...
  39. ncbi Psychotherapy for depression among children and adolescents: a systematic review
    N Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 116:84-95. 2007
    ..To examine the clinical benefit, the harm and the cost-effectiveness of psychotherapies in comparison with no treatment, waiting-list controls, attention-placebos, and treatment as usual in depressed youths...
  40. ncbi Stratum-specific likelihood ratios of two versions of the general health questionnaire
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychol Med 31:519-29. 2001
    ..These SSLRs have been incorporated into nomograms and spreadsheet programmes so that future researchers can swiftly derive the post-test probability for a patient or a group of patients from a pre-test probability and GHQ score...
  41. ncbi Efficacy, tolerability and side-effect profile of fluvoxamine for major depression: meta-analysis
    I M Omori
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    J Psychopharmacol 23:539-50. 2009
    ..Clinicians should focus on practically or clinically relevant differences including those in side-effect profiles...
  42. ncbi Postictal cardiovascular response predicts therapeutic efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy for depression
    Hideki Azuma
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:290-4. 2007
    ..The higher these postical physiological parameters, the more effective the course of ECT. It may be useful to examine such sensitive physiological parameters as BP, HR or RPP to determine effective or non-effective electrical seizure...
  43. ncbi Ictal physiological characteristics of remitters during bilateral electroconvulsive therapy
    Hideki Azuma
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavior Medicine, Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Medicine Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Res 185:462-4. 2011
    ..However, these results could not be generalized, and are limited to non-atropine conditions and bilateral ECT...
  44. ncbi Postictal suppression correlates with therapeutic efficacy for depression in bilateral sine and pulse wave electroconvulsive therapy
    Hideki Azuma
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:168-73. 2007
    ..Postictal suppression appears to offer a useful predictor of clinical outcome of depression in BL ECT. No EEG parameters were found to be differentially predictive between sine and pulse wave ECT...
  45. ncbi Memory, attention, and executive functions before and after sine and pulse wave electroconvulsive therapies for treatment-resistant major depression
    Akiko Fujita
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    J ECT 22:107-12. 2006
    ..Attention/executive functions tended to deteriorate with sine wave ECT but improved with pulse wave ECT...
  46. ncbi Ictal electroencephalographic correlates of posttreatment neuropsychological changes in electroconvulsive therapy: a hypothesis-generation study
    Hideki Azuma
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    J ECT 23:163-8. 2007
    ..The aim of this hypothesis-generation study was to examine correlations between ictal electroencephalographic (EEG) characteristics and cognitive side effects after ECT...
  47. ncbi Neural correlates of memory in depression measured by brain perfusion SPECT at rest
    Hideki Azuma
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 63:685-92. 2009
    ....
  48. ncbi Safety reporting and adverse-event profile of mirtazapine described in randomized controlled trials in comparison with other classes of antidepressants in the acute-phase treatment of adults with depression: systematic review and meta-analysis
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan
    CNS Drugs 24:35-53. 2010
    ..Mirtazapine has a unique mechanism of antidepressant action, and thus is thought to have a different profile of adverse events from that of other antidepressants...
  49. ncbi The epidemiology of chronic fatigue, physical illness, and symptoms of common mental disorders: a cross-sectional survey from the second British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity
    Norio Watanabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    J Psychosom Res 64:357-62. 2008
    ..The study aimed to describe the prevalence of chronic fatigue in the general population and to investigate the extent to which its association with physical illness was independent of other symptoms of common mental disorders...
  50. ncbi Video feedback with peer ratings in naturalistic anxiety-provoking situations for social anxiety disorder: Preliminary report
    Junwen Chen
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Japan
    J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 41:6-10. 2010
    ..Male sex, comorbidity with other anxiety disorders, and benzodiazepine prn, as well as patients' initial anxiety and avoidance were negative predictors of the effect of video feedback...
  51. ncbi Gradations of clinical severity and sensitivity to change assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Japanese patients with depression
    Takahiro Hiroe
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, 467-8601, Japan
    Psychiatry Res 135:229-35. 2005
    ....
  52. ncbi Stratum-specific likelihood ratios of the general health questionnaire in the community: help-seeking and physical co-morbidity affect the test characteristics
    T A Furukawa
    Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City Medical School, Japan
    Psychol Med 32:743-8. 2002
    ..For developing countries or rural areas, the results are less definitive and an investigator may wish to conduct a pilot study...
  53. ncbi Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Frontal Assessment Battery in patients with the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia
    Shutaro Nakaaki
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:78-83. 2007
    ..0, 95%CI = 2.6-55.4). The Japanese version of the FAB offers promise as an easy and quick bedside screening test to distinguish fv-FTD from AD...
  54. ncbi Regional cerebral blood flow changes in depression after electroconvulsive therapy
    Kazuhisa Segawa
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
    Psychiatry Res 147:135-43. 2006
    ....
  55. ncbi Emotional distress and its correlates among parents of children with pervasive developmental disorders
    Atsurou Yamada
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:651-7. 2007
    ..Clinicians can deliver better service by paying appropriate attention to the emotional distress of mothers of children with not only autistic disorder but also other PDD...
  56. ncbi Changes after behavior therapy among responsive and nonresponsive patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Tomoaki Yamanishi
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City, Japan
    Psychiatry Res 172:242-50. 2009
    ..Our results support the hypothesis that while the OFC may be associated with the BT response, BT may result in changes in rCBF in the medial and middle frontal cortex...
  57. ncbi Fluvoxamine versus other anti-depressive agents for depression
    Ichiro M Omori
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya, Japan, 467 8601
    Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD006114. 2010
    ..However, differing side effect profiles were evident. Based on these findings, we conclude that clinicians should focus on practical or clinically relevant considerations, including these differences in side effect profiles...
  58. ncbi Is "relationship fear" unique to Japan? Symptom factors and patient clusters of social anxiety disorder among the Japanese clinical population
    Akio Sakurai
    Department of Psychiatry, Toyokawa Municipal Hospital, Komyo cho 1 19, Toyokawa 442 8561, Japan
    J Affect Disord 87:131-7. 2005
    ..We examined the symptomatological structure and clinical subtypes of patients with DSM-IV SAD among the Japanese clinical population...
  59. ncbi Impairment of decision-making cognition in a case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) presenting with pathologic gambling and hoarding as the initial symptoms
    Shutaro Nakaaki
    Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho cho, Mizuho ku, Nagoya 467 8601, Japan
    Cogn Behav Neurol 20:121-5. 2007
    ..The aim of this study was to use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to examine decision-making cognition in a patient with mild frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD)...
  60. ncbi Efficacy and tolerability of milnacipran in the treatment of major depression in comparison with other antidepressants : a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Atsuo Nakagawa
    Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    CNS Drugs 22:587-602. 2008
    ..We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that compared the efficacy and tolerability of milnacipran with other antidepressants...
  61. ncbi Cross-cultural study of conviction subtype Taijin Kyofu: proposal and reliability of Nagoya-Osaka diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder
    Yoshihiro Kinoshita
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
    J Nerv Ment Dis 196:307-13. 2008
    ..5% with DSM-IV and 87.6% with the modified DSM-IV with Nagoya-Osaka criteria (p < 0.001). These findings indicate that the Nagoya-Osaka criteria for SAD can improve interrater reliability of SAD...
  62. ncbi The new GRID Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression demonstrates excellent inter-rater reliability for inexperienced and experienced raters before and after training
    Hideaki Tabuse
    Holy Cross Hospital, Kujiri 2431 160, Izumi cho, Toki, 509 5142 Japan
    Psychiatry Res 153:61-7. 2007
    ....
  63. ncbi Evidence-based guidelines for interpretation of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
    Toshi A Furukawa
    J Clin Psychopharmacol 27:531-4. 2007
  64. ncbi Depressive disorder needs an evidence base commensurate with its public health importance
    John R Geddes
    Can J Psychiatry 52:543-4. 2007
  65. ncbi Efficacy of olanzapine augmentation of paroxetine therapy in patients with severe body dysmorphic disorder
    Shutaro Nakaaki
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 62:370. 2008
  66. ncbi Neuroleptic malignant syndrome-like state in an epileptic patient with organic brain comorbidity treated with zonisamide and carbamazepine
    Hideki Azuma
    Epilepsia 48:1999-2001. 2007
  67. ncbi Metareview on short-term effectiveness and safety of antidepressants for depression: an evidence-based approach to inform clinical practice
    Andrea Cipriani
    Department of Medicine and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy
    Can J Psychiatry 52:553-62. 2007
    ....
  68. ncbi A case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with panic attack as the first symptom
    Shutaro Nakaaki
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:485-7. 2007
  69. ncbi A case of late-onset obsessive compulsive disorder developing frontotemporal lobar degeneration
    Shutaro Nakaaki
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:487-8. 2007
  70. ncbi Association between unreported outcomes and effect size estimates in Cochrane meta-analyses
    Toshi A Furukawa
    JAMA 297:468-70. 2007