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| Hisato MatsunagaSummaryAffiliation: Osaka City University Country: Japan Publications
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Taijin kyofusho: a form of social anxiety disorder that responds to serotonin reuptake inhibitors?H Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, 1 4 3 Asahi machi, Abeno Ku, Osaka, Japan
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 4:231-7. 2001..SRIs may be effective for a substantial number of TKS patients. Prospective controlled trials are necessary to confirm these findings and to delineate the pharmacotherapeutic profile of TKS...- A comparative study of clinical features between pure checkers and pure washers categorized using a lifetime symptom rating methodH Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, 1 4 3 Asahi machi, Abeno Ku, Osaka 545 8585, Japan
Psychiatry Res 105:221-9. 2001..Further work from a multidimensional perspective is required to verify the clinical significance of a typology based on lifetime symptoms... 
The clinical utility of symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
Psychiatry Res 180:25-9. 2010..In clinical settings, however, the limitations of such a simple measure of predominant symptom dimensions should be borne in mind and further work on their validity and utility is needed...- Clinical features and treatment characteristics of compulsive hoarding in Japanese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Osaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
CNS Spectr 15:258-65. 2010..Compulsive hoarding has been studied primarily in Western countries. Here we sought to examine compulsive hoarding in Japanese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The heterogeneous nature of hoarding was also investigated... - A long-term trial of the effectiveness and safety of atypical antipsychotic agents in augmenting SSRI-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
J Clin Psychiatry 70:863-8. 2009.... - Symptom structure in Japanese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, 1 4 3 Asahi machi, Abeno Ku, Osaka 545 8585, Japan
Am J Psychiatry 165:251-3. 2008..The authors factor analyzed data on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale symptom checklist in a large group of Japanese OCD patients to examine whether symptom dimensions were stable across cultures... - Impulsive disorders in Japanese adult patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, 545 8585, Japan
Compr Psychiatry 46:43-9. 2005..However, further research is necessary to determine whether impulsivity should be conceptualized as lying on a spectrum with compulsivity or as a dimension that is orthogonal to compulsivity... - Secondary obsessive-compulsive disorder related to diaschisis after pontine infarction, successfully treated with paroxetineTokuzo Matsui
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:186-9. 2007..This case suggests that brainstem infarction and decreased temporal lobe perfusion can lead to secondary obsessive-compulsive disorder... - A case series of aripiprazole augmentation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorderHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract 15:263-9. 2011..We sought to investigate the efficacy and safety of a novel atypical neuroleptic aripiprazole as an augmenting agent for the treatment-resistant OCD... - Clinical features in two cases with musical obsessions who successfully responded to clomipramineTokuzo Matsui
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 57:47-51. 2003..Thus, their symptoms appear to be phenomenologically and biologically distinct from musical hallucinations, especially those characteristic of schizophrenia... - [A review of the researches focusing on the heterogeneity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its potential subtypes]Hisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine
Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi 110:161-74. 2008.... - Correlations between the offensive subtype of social anxiety disorder and personality disordersToshihiko Nagata
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 65:341-8. 2011..This study investigated the differences between the offensive and non-offensive subtypes of SAD in terms of the background and axis I and II comorbidity... - Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders: cross-national and ethnic issuesHisato Matsunaga
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
CNS Spectr 12:392-400. 2007..Cross-national comparative studies exploring culturally influenced differences in clinical course, treatment outcome, including ethnogenetic differences in drug response, and prognosis are needed...