A5066732143- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
Toho University
2019-2025
Saitama Medical University
2021
Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital
2021
Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital
2021
Saiseikai Ibaraki Hospital
2021
Objective Impact of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) changes on the criteria for schizophrenia (SZ) has been reported to be minimal in previous studies. However, this could different first-episode spectrum disorders (FE-SSDs). We investigated what proportion patients with FE-SSDs was diagnosed based sole presence bizarre delusions (BDs) or first rank auditory hallucinations (FRAHs). Their alternative diagnosis by DSM-5 established diagnostic stability...
International immigration to Japan, where homogeneous ethnicity is a population characteristic, has been growing. Although recognised as risk factor for multiple mental-health related issues, there are few regional reports on foreign nationals accessing the psychiatric services in Japan. We aimed reveal their current status and provide information develop an optimal service system.A multicentre retrospective document review research was conducted. The subjects were who resided Japan...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently become the most important issue in world. Very few reports Japan have examined impact of COVID-19 on peripartum mental health. We status postpartum health before and during from a consecutive database metropolitan area Japan.The subjects were women who had completed maternity check-up at core regional hospital Yokohama period April 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. collected subjects' scores for Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale...
Social cognition impacts social functioning in schizophrenia; however, little is known about how patients with schizophrenia themselves perceive cognition. This study, using an internet survey, aimed to investigate their knowledge of cognition, clinical experiences related awareness cognition's role one's life, and the relationships between subjective difficulties functioning.Data from 232 outpatients (SZ) 494 healthy controls (HC) were obtained through survey weighted according demographics...
Background: In schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), social cognition mediates the relationship between neurocognition and functioning. Although people with major depressive disorder (MDD) also exhibit cognitive impairments, which are often prolonged, little is known about role of in MDD. Methods: Using data obtained through an internet survey, 210 patients SSD or MDD were selected using propensity score matching based on their demographics illness duration. Social cognition,...
The fast-growing migrant population in Japan and globally poses challenges mental healthcare, yet research addressing migrants' health treatment engagement remains limited.
The presently reported patient was a 37-year-old married primipara with peripartum depression comorbid bonding disorder. Care anxiety and lack of affection towards her baby first appeared at around the time delivery, developed major one month after birth healthy baby. At first, standard treatment for including use antidepressants, electroconvulsive therapy, supportive psychotherapy were provided. However, problems to impede obstruct amelioration depression. Although methods disorder have not...
Background: In schizophrenia (SZ), social cognition mediates the relationship between neurocognition and functioning. Although people with major depressive disorder (MDD) also exhibit cognitive impairments, which are often prolonged, little is known about role of in MDD. Methods: Using data obtained through an internet survey, 210 patients SZ or MDD were selected using propensity score matching based on their demographic information illness duration. Social cognition, neurocognition,...
The importance of identification facial emotion recognition (FER) bias for a child's face has been reinforced from the perspective risk screening future peripartum mental health problems. We attempted to clarify relationship FER children's faces with antenatal depression and bonding failure among pregnant women, taking into consideration their broad social cognitive abilities experience in child raising. This study had cross-sectional design, participants were women second trimester...
Background: The number of young Japanese Brazilians, who are return migrants with ancestral roots, is increasing rapidly in Japan. However, the characteristics their mental health and relation between a complex ethnic identity remains unclear. Methods: This cross-sectional study compared 25 Japanese-Brazilian high school students 62 living same area. Research using self-report questionnaires on health, help-seeking behavior tendencies, was conducted. group also divided into low groups,...
The number of young Japanese Brazilians, who are return migrants with ancestral roots, is increasing rapidly in Japan. However, the characteristics their mental health and relation between a complex ethnic identity remains unclear.This cross-sectional study compared 25 Japanese-Brazilian high school students 62 living same area. Research using self-report questionnaires on health, help-seeking behavior tendencies, was conducted. group also divided into low groups, conditions were...
Women with epilepsy (WWE) need effective and safe treatment during the childbearing age. Administration of antiseizure medications to WWE pregnancy may be associated risks fetus, including major congenital malformations negative developmental outcomes. Therefore, preconception care is essential for WWE. Multidisciplinary approaches interprofessional collaboration are important support childbirth; however, such complicated difficult. Moreover, prevalence perinatal depression among higher than...
We describe the courses of treatment for epilepsies in two patients with semilobar type holoprosencephaly (HPE); a 5-year-old girl and 30-year-old man. Seizure semiology included eye fixation, upward or lateral gaze, horizontal vertical nystagmus, eyelid flutter, grinning facial distortion, which frequently evolved to generalized tonic convulsions. In both patients, ictal electroencephalography revealed seizure onset rhythmic activity bilateral frontopolar areas. Administration phenobarbital...
There is a global movement to develop and implement community-based integrated mental health systems. The present study attempted clarify the perceptions attitudes of users non-users services concerning illness in Japan.A new questionnaire was developed for this internet survey. Data from 500 outpatients with depression healthy subjects were sampled according demographics Japanese population.Over 90% over 70% patients unaware common age onset or lifetime prevalence illness. Over about could...
Abstract Background: International immigration to Japan, where homogeneous ethnicity is a population characteristic, has been growing. Although recognized as risk factor for multiple mental-health related issues, there are few regional reports on foreign residents who visit hospital mental health problems in Japan. We aimed examine such patients’ characteristics. Methods: A multicenter retrospective study using medical records was conducted. The subjects were patients presented at the...
Abstract Background: International immigration to Japan, where homogeneous ethnicity is a population characteristic, has been growing. Although recognised as risk factor for multiple mental-health related issues, there are few regional reports on foreign nationals accessing the psychiatric services in Japan. We aimed reveal their current status and provide information develop an optimal service system. Methods: A multicentre retrospective document review research was conducted. The subjects...
Abstract Background: International immigration to Japan, where homogeneous ethnicity is a population characteristic, has been growing. Although recognized as risk factor for multiple mental-health related issues, there are few regional reports on foreign residents who visit hospital mental health problems in Japan. We aimed examine such patients’ characteristics. Methods: A multicenter retrospective study using medical records was conducted. The subjects were patients presented at the...
Abstract Background: International immigration to Japan, where homogeneous ethnicity is a population characteristic, has been growing. Although recognized as risk factor for multiple mental-health related issues, there are few regional reports on foreign nationals accessing the psychiatric services in Japan. We aimed reveal their current status and provide information develop an optimal service system. Methods: A multicenter retrospective chart review research was conducted. The subjects...
Abstract Purpose: There is a global movement to develop and implement community-based integrated mental health systems. The present study aimed clarify needs perceptions of early intervention in those systems among individuals with illness healthy people Japan. Methods: A new questionnaire was developed for this internet survey. Data from 500 outpatients depression subjects were sampled according the demographics Japanese population analyzed descriptively. Results: Over 90% over 70% patients...
Abstract Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently become the most important issue in world. Very few reports Japan have examined impact of COVID-19 on peripartum mental health. We current status postpartum health a metropolitan area. Methods: subjects were women who had completed maternity check-up at core regional hospital Yokohama during period from April 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. collected subjects’ scores for Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale...