Toshiaki A Furukawa

..To systematically review the efficacy and tolerability of fluoxetine, the most widely studied of newer antidepressants, in comparison with all other antidepressants in the acute treatment of depression in patients aged more than 18 years...

..However, current quality measures are not related with treatment estimates in antidepressant trials and may not be useful weighting tools when meta-analyses of data extracted from antidepressant RCTs are carried out...

..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...

..This approach assumes constant RR but no empirical study to date has examined the validity of this assumption...

..The purposes of this study were to investigate the association between patients' perceived needs and psychological distress and/or quality of life (QOL) and to clarify the characteristics of patients with a high degree of unmet needs...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the accuracy of oncologists' recognition of their patients' supportive care needs and symptoms in breast cancer outpatient consultation in Japan...

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..The objective of this study was to explore the performances of several diagnostic criteria items for judging the severity of major depression among cancer patients...

..Clinically it is suggested that new interoceptive tasks related to gastrointestinal fears are needed...

..Furthermore, the potential impact of social anxiety disorder on the psychological distress of cancer patients has not been reported...

..However, given its potentially significant impact on relevant outcome, including QOL, AN should not be neglected in current clinical oncology practice. (Cancer Sci 2010; 101: 2596-2660)...

..These findings suggest that psychological distress is a possible key cause of sleep disturbance and management of psychological distress may be one promising strategy for prevention of sleep disturbance among advanced cancer patients...

..To explore the interrelationships between the psychosocial and illness factors that determine the disease status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to identify how each factor is associated with quality of life (QOL)...

..005). The novel intervention program is feasible, is a promising strategy for reducing clinically manifested psychological distress and further controlled studies are warranted...

..Delirium is a common and serious clinical problem for hospitalized patients and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality and increased healthcare costs...

..The aim of the present study was to develop a behavior rating scale for assessing dysexecutive symptoms in Japanese patients with AD...

..54, 95% CI 0.27-0.73 in the case of the father). Although we still need to examine the Japanese QRI with different populations, it appears to be a promising measure of individual-specific relationship for the Japanese population...

..To investigate the association between cancer patients' reluctance for emotional disclosure to their physician and underrecognition of depression by physicians...

..To assess whether psychological disorders might induce spontaneous abortion we carried out a prospective study to determine if any psychological parameter influenced risk in those patients with a history of recurrent miscarriages...

..Once depression develops, early object loss may act as a pathoplastic factor by making it severer especially by rendering people less able to perform what they normally could do...

..Regarding screening for MD, both single-item interviews and the HADS possess useful screening performance. Different screening instruments may be recommended depending on the depressive disorders and specific populations...

..This study investigated the causes of delirium and their association with reversibility and motor subtypes of delirium in cancer patients...

..To assess the relationship between depression, reduced heart rate (HR) variability, and altered HR dynamics among patients with end-stage renal disease who are receiving hemodialysis (HD) therapy...

..Caution should be exercised in assessing these results, however, since this is the first meta-analysis showing the significant effectiveness of diazepam in the treatment of neurosis or psychosomatic disease...

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..Low BMI may be an independent risk factor for suicidal ideation and deliberate self-harming behavior in Japanese adolescents...

..To conduct a comprehensive, systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and tolerability of mirtazapine over other antidepressants in the acute-phase treatment of major depression...

..We conclude that the Japanese version of the BDI-II is psychometrically robust and can be used to assess depressive symptoms in Japanese people...

..Among "checkers", poor general memory was related to inhibition deficits...

..004). It is suggested that discussing and establishing the consensus guideline among the raters offers a feasible method to improve interrater reliability in clinical EEG interpretations...

..We examined the effectiveness of various interoceptive exposure exercises using the Body Sensations Questionnaire (BSQ) (Chambless et al., 1984)...

..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...

..Antidepressant drugs can promote remission from acute depressive episodes. Our aim was to establish how long such treatments should be continued to prevent relapse...

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