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  1. Personalized cognitive-behavioural therapy for obesity (CBT-OB) is a new treatment that combines the traditional procedures of standard behavioural therapy for obesity (i.e., self-monitoring, goal setting, sti...

    Authors: Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana and Simona Calugi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2020 14:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Akathisia is a rather common extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotic drugs and antidepressants, often resulting in severe discomfort for patients. However, due to the diversity of symptoms, it is often ove...

    Authors: Mayumi Ishida, Jungo Imanishi, Yasuo Yazawa, Yu Sunakawa, Tomoaki Torigoe and Hideki Onishi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2020 14:4
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  3. The effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions for eating disorders (EDs) is widely studied in Europe, North America, and Australia/New Zealand. However, few controlled studies and no randomized controll...

    Authors: Chisato Ohara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Shu Takakura, Yuka Endo, Naho Tamura, Hiroe Kikuchi, Kazushi Maruo, Norio Sugawara, Kenji Hatano, Hitomi Kawanishi, Misako Funaba, Ayako Sugawara, Nobuhiro Nohara, Keisuke Kawai, Shin Fukudo, Nobuyuki Sudo…
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2020 14:2
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  4. Although fatigue is a common and distressing symptom in cancer survivors, the mechanism of fatigue is not fully understood. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relation between the fatigue and mindfu...

    Authors: Kaori Ikeuchi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Yasunori Nakamura, Tomoko Izawa, Nobuhiko Shinkura and Kazuko Nin
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2020 14:1
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  7. Yoga is a representative mind-body therapy. Our previous studies have demonstrated that isometric yoga (i.e. yoga programs that we developed so individuals can practice yoga poses with a self-adjustable isomet...

    Authors: Shu Takakura, Takakazu Oka and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:29
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  8. School-age children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have difficulties in interpersonal relationships, in addition to impaired facial expression perception and recognition. For successful s...

    Authors: Keiichi Shimamura, Takeshi Inoue, Hiroko Ichikawa, Emi Nakato, Yuiko Sakuta, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi, Ryusuke Kakigi and Ryoichi Sakuta
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:30
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  9. Although the dietary inflammatory index (DII) has been evaluated in relation to psychological disorders risk, the association between DII and psychosomatic complaints is unclear. This study aimed to determine ...

    Authors: Fahimeh Haghighatdoost, Awat Feizi, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh, Christine Feinle-Bisset, Ammar Hassanzadeh Keshteli, Hamidreza Roohafza, Hamid Afshar and Peyman Adibi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:27
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  10. In a previous randomized controlled trial, we found that practicing seated isometric yoga regularly for 2 months improved the fatigue of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) who are resistant to conven...

    Authors: Takakazu Oka, Tokusei Tanahashi, Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren and Yu Yamada
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. A majority of women from all cultures and socioeconomic levels experience myriad symptoms known as premenstrual syndrome during the days prior to menstruation. The present study investigated commonly reported ...

    Authors: Tamaki Matsumoto, Miho Egawa, Tetsuya Kimura and Tatsuya Hayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:26
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  12. The study investigates the association between circadian phenotype (CP), its stability (interdaily stability - IS) and physical activity (PA) in a weight loss (WL) programme.

    Authors: Eva Fárková, Jakub Schneider, Michal Šmotek, Eduard Bakštein, Jitka Herlesová, Jana Kopřivová, Petra Šrámková, Dita Pichlerová and Martin Fried
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:24
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  14. There is no consensus on effective treatment for laxative abuse in patients with eating disorders. Here, we report the case of a patient with laxative abuse who showed some improvement through an intervention ...

    Authors: Kuniyoshi Toyoshima and Ichiro Kusumi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:23
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. We developed and validated a childhood eating disorder outcome scale based on outcomes associated with body mass index standard deviation score (BMI-SDS). This prospective observational study included 131 chil...

    Authors: Shinichiro Nagamitsu, Yoshimitsu Fukai, So Uchida, Michiko Matsuoka, Toshiyuki Iguchi, Ayumi Okada, Ryoichi Sakuta, Takeshi Inoue, Ryoko Otani, Shinji Kitayama, Kenshi Koyanagi, Yuichi Suzuki, Yuki Suzuki, Yoshino Sumi, Shizuo Takamiya, Chikako Fujii…
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:21
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  17. Psychological factors have been reported to have influence on the eating habits of patients with diabetes. However, previous studies have used questionnaires to investigate the association, and thus include re...

    Authors: Shuji Inada, Yoko Iizuka, Ken Ohashi, Hiroe Kikuchi, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Takashi Kadowaki and Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:20
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  18. The advancement of wearable/ambulatory technologies has brought a huge change to data collection frameworks in recent decades. Mobile health (mHealth) care platforms, which utilize ambulatory devices to collec...

    Authors: Jinhyuk Kim, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi and Joshua M. Smyth
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. Menstrual pain causes low quality of life among women of reproductive age, and often interferes with daily activities. Perceived injustice is a cognition linked to adverse symptoms. The aims of this study were...

    Authors: Keiko Yamada, Tomonori Adachi, Yasuhiko Kubota, Takashi Takeda and Masako Iseki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:17
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  21. In the original publication of this article [1], a system ID “BPSM-D-19-00022R2” is mistakenly included in the article’s title. The correct article tile should be “Subjective well-being and problem-solving ski...

    Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Hirokazu Furukawa, Chiho Kitashima and Shota Noda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:16
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:11

  22. Poor sleep quality is associated with overeating and unhealthy eating. The aim of this study was to investigate if emotional eating could act as a mediator between poor sleep quality and energy/macronutrients ...

    Authors: Sevda Saleh-Ghadimi, Parvin Dehghan, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi and Hamed Jafari-Vayghan
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:15
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  23. There is growing evidence of the treatment efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). CBT is recommended by several practice guidelines for patients with IBS if lifestyl...

    Authors: Hitomi Kawanishi, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Misako Funaba, Yasushi Fujii, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Hiroe Kikuchi, Keisuke Kawai, Kazushi Maruo, Norio Sugawara, Kenji Hatano, Tomotaka Shoji, Tadahiro Yamazaki, Kenta Toda, Masafumi Murakami, Masayasu Shoji, Chisato Ohara…
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:14
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  24. Previous studies have shown that hoarding behavior usually starts at a subclinical level in early adolescence and gradually worsens; however, a limited number of studies have examined the prevalence of hoardin...

    Authors: Kosuke Kajitani, Rikako Tsuchimoto, Jun Nagano and Tomohiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:13
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  25. In recent years, the phenomena of access to the cell phone and addiction to the Internet have been developed among students due to their many applications and attractiveness. Therefore, the present study was c...

    Authors: Rasool Kawyannejad, Maryam Mirzaei, Ali Valinejadi, Behzad Hemmatpour, Hasan Ali Karimpour, Javad AminiSaman, Ebrahim Ezzati, Siavash Vaziri, Mojgan Safaeepour and Saeed Mohammadi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:12
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  26. Shogi is a popular board game in Japan, and shogi-assisted cognitive–behavioral therapy (S-CBT) has been applied in Kakogawa City, a Japanese municipality. The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects ...

    Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Hirokazu Furukawa, Chiho Kitashima and Shota Noda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:16

  28. Behavioral activation therapy (BAT) directly addresses activities that individuals value most highly, and may be easily applicable to cancer patients. However, there is no established evidence of the use of BA...

    Authors: Takatoshi Hirayama, Yuko Ogawa, Yuko Yanai, Shin-ichi Suzuki and Ken Shimizu
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Normal delivery is a natural and physiological process with numerous benefits for mother and baby. Giving birth by Caesarean Section (CS) should be limited to the cases in which normal delivery is not possible...

    Authors: Soraya Siabani, Khadijeh Jamshidi and Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:8
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  30. Family is considered as the first source of care and support for the mother. Family stress and anxiety can be transmitted to the pregnant mother and have negative effects on pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, ...

    Authors: Fariba Alaem, Amir Jalali, Afshin Almasi, Alireza abdi and Mozhgan khalili
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:7
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  31. The impact of looking after children who live with complex chronic conditions is a growing public health issue. However, it is unclear whether sociodemographic and psychosocial variables can be used to predict...

    Authors: Filiberto Toledano-Toledano and Miriam Teresa Domínguez-Guedea
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:6
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  32. Board games are played by moving game pieces in particular ways on special boards marked with patterns. To clarify the possible roles of board game use in psychosomatic medicine, the present review evaluated s...

    Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly being implemented worldwide for problems with depression and anxiety, and they have shown evidence of efficacy. However, few studies have examined the effects o...

    Authors: Toru Takahashi, Fukiko Sugiyama, Tomoki Kikai, Issaku Kawashima, Siqing Guan, Mana Oguchi, Taro Uchida and Hiroaki Kumano
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Previous large-scale studies suggest that internet gaming disorder (IGD) among children and adolescents has become an important public concern. Minors are known to be particularly susceptible to problematic in...

    Authors: Nagisa Sugaya, Tomohiro Shirasaka, Kenzo Takahashi and Hideyuki Kanda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. The aim of the study was to represent chronic stress exposure by a complex generic Active and Healthy (AHA) diagnostic assessment tool incorporating ICF. This is a single-centre, cross-sectional, observational...

    Authors: Petra Stute, Marion Anker, Laura Hollenstein, Michael von Wolff, Norman Bitterlich, Florian Meissner and Dagmar Poethig
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:2
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  36. Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS), a chronic intraoral burning sensation or dysesthesia without clinically evident causes, is one of the most common medically unexplained oral symptoms/syndromes. Even though the cl...

    Authors: Trang T. H. Tu, Miho Takenoshita, Hirofumi Matsuoka, Takeshi Watanabe, Takayuki Suga, Yuma Aota, Yoshihiro Abiko and Akira Toyofuku
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2019 13:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. It has become necessary to develop mental health management methods that do not require specialized skills or tools to implement. With this in mind, we performed a subjective and objective investigation of the...

    Authors: Yoshiyasu Fujiwara and Hitoshi Okamura
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:22
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  38. Although dizziness is one of the most common symptoms of menopause, the underlying mechanism is not precisely known. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of, and the factors associated wit...

    Authors: Masakazu Terauchi, Tamami Odai, Asuka Hirose, Kiyoko Kato, Mihoko Akiyoshi, Mikako Masuda, Reiko Tsunoda, Hiroaki Fushiki and Naoyuki Miyasaka
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:21
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  40. Anorexia nervosa (AN) patients are assumed to express high levels of guilt and envy. Ultimatum game (UG) is a standard behavioral task that focuses on interpersonal behavior when splitting a sum of money betwe...

    Authors: Masanori Isobe, Michiko Kawabata, Ema Murao, Tomomi Noda, Noriko Matsukawa, Ryosaku Kawada, Teruhisa Uwatoko, Toshiya Murai, Shun’ichi Noma and Hidehiko Takahashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:19
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  41. Rome III was revised to Rome IV in May 2016. One important change in the Rome IV criteria is that abdominal pain must be present for a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Under Rome III, in contrast, ...

    Authors: Masanori Kosako, Hiraku Akiho, Hiroto Miwa, Motoyori Kanazawa and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. High expectations regarding therapy are reported to have positive effects on future therapeutic course and related behavior. Some individuals are aware of feelings of comfort immediately after a relaxation the...

    Authors: Hideaki Hasuo, Kenji Kanbara, Hiroko Sakuma and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:16
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  44. The neural mechanisms underlying body dissatisfaction and emotional problems evoked by social comparisons in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) are currently unclear. Here, we elucidate patterns of brain acti...

    Authors: Naoki Kodama, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Aya Takeda, Motonari Maeda, Tetsuya Ando, Hiroe Kikuchi, Motoharu Gondo, Hiroaki Adachi and Gen Komaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:15
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  45. After the Great East Japan Earthquake (March 11, 2011), the fatigue of relief workers became a major problem in affected areas. In the present study, we conducted a questionnaire survey 2.5 years post-disaster...

    Authors: Noriko Setou, Takaki Fukumori, Kazuhisa Nakao and Masaharu Maeda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:14
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  46. Pancreatic cancer (PC) has poorer prognosis and higher surgical invasiveness than many other cancers, with associated psychiatric symptoms including depression and anxiety. Perioperative depression has not bee...

    Authors: Naoko Sato, Yoshimi Hasegawa, Asami Saito, Fuyuhiko Motoi, Kyohei Ariake, Yu Katayose, Kei Nakagawa, Kei Kawaguchi, Shin Fukudo, Michiaki Unno and Fumiko Sato
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) is a representative psychosomatic disorder. Several pathophysiological factors have been linked to IBS symptoms such as the modulation of gastrointestinal mot...

    Authors: Masanori Kosako, Hiraku Akiho, Hiroto Miwa, Motoyori Kanazawa and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:12
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  48. This letter comments on the conclusion drawn by Shirotsuki et al. (2017) in their article entitled “The effect for Japanese workers of a self-help computerized cognitive behaviour therapy program with a supple...

    Authors: Geneviève Sauvé, Marie-France Bastien, Casandra Roy-Gelencser and Ghassan El-Baalbaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:11
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  50. The purpose of this study was to determing which psychological traits of Japanese type 2 diabetes patients would provide reliability and validity to the Japanese version of the Acceptance and Action Diabetes Q...

    Authors: Junichi Saito, Wataru Shoji and Hiroaki Kumano
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:9
    Content type: Research Published on:
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