Saeko Ikai

ORCID: 0000-0001-7969-1120
Publications
Citations
Views
---
Saved
---
About
Contact & Profiles
Research Areas
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Academic Writing and Publishing
  • Psychological Treatments and Assessments
  • scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Keio University
2012-2025

University of Toronto
2020-2025

Sapporo Minami Hospital
2025

LIDSEN Publishing Inc. (United States)
2021

University of Central Florida
2021

Keio University Hospital
2015-2020

Objective: To examine the effects of Hatha yoga therapy on resilience, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels, and salivary alpha amylase (SAA) activity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Design participants: Single-blinded, randomized controlled study which outpatients schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders (according to International Classification Diseases, 10th Revision) were randomly assigned a control group. Setting: November 2012–April 2013 at Yamanashi...

10.1089/acm.2014.0205 article EN The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2014-11-01

Abstract Background Stigma hinders the recovery from mental disorders due to societal statuses, social networks, and patients' pride. Self-stigma particularly internalizes fear of standing out, leading patients experience self-blame, despair, shame associated with their disorders. Patients alcohol use face self-stigma lack acceptance for such conditions. Yoga is a mind-body exercise intervention that has gained popularity over last decade. Previous randomized controlled trials (RCTs)...

10.1093/ijnp/pyae059.535 article EN cc-by-nc The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025-02-01

Abstract Background Burnout, encompassing emotional exhaustion, disrupts the balance between mind and body, emphasizing need for concise practical interventions to mitigate risk in medical settings. Yoga therapy has been shown alleviate anxiety depression both healthy adults patients with severe mental illnesses. However, there is a paucity of research investigating effects short- term yoga on burnout among staff. Aims & Objectives This study aims evaluate effect two-week Methods We...

10.1093/ijnp/pyae059.184 article EN cc-by-nc The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025-02-01

While patients' perspectives toward pharmacotherapy are expected to be directly influenced by their motivation and understanding of the treatment that they currently receiving, no study has comprehensively investigated impact insight into illness knowledge for ongoing on attitude towards drug among patients with schizophrenia.One hundred forty-eight Japanese outpatients diagnosed schizophrenia, according International Classification Diseases 10th edition, were included (mean±SD age,...

10.2147/ndt.s240377 article EN cc-by-nc Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2020-03-01

While 65%-80% occupancy of dopamine D2 receptors with antipsychotics has been proposed to achieve optimal therapeutic response during acute treatment schizophrenia, it remains unclear as whether is also necessary maintain receptor within this "safe" window for ongoing maintenance treatment. The data are especially scarce long-acting antipsychotic formulations.Clinically stable patients schizophrenia (DSM-IV) receiving a dose risperidone injectable (LAI) monotherapy at least 3 months and free...

10.4088/jcp.12m07638 article EN The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2012-08-15

Abstract Introduction Data on the knowledge about antipsychotic medications prescribed in patients with schizophrenia are very limited. Moreover, it remains unclear how patients’ antipsychotics affects medication adherence. Methods ighty-one Japanese outpatients according to International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition, were included. Patients’ primary them terms therapeutic effects, type, and implicated neurotransmitters was assessed a multiple-choice questionnaire developed for...

10.1055/s-0043-113828 article EN Pharmacopsychiatry 2017-07-04

Relatively low publication rates of abstracts presented at scientific meetings (i.e., 37.3%, 95% CI: 35.3-39.3) have been reported across various fields worldwide. However, no study has investigated the rate psychiatric and factors associated with full in Japan. This aimed to determine proportion conference field that reach English its

10.1111/pcn.13351 article EN Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2022-03-16
Coming Soon ...