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  2. The role of psycosocial factors in the disease progression of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to prospectively evaluate the prognostic value of behavioral p...

    Authors: Ryoko Sawamoto, Jun Nagano, Eiji Kajiwara, Junko Sonoda, Tetsuya Hiramoto and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:24
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  3. The course of self-reported symptoms during medium- versus long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy has rarely been documented for outpatient settings. This observational study describes routine practice of ambul...

    Authors: S. Nolte, L. Erdur, H. F. Fischer, M. Rose and B. Palmowski
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:23
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  4. The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011. The epicenter was off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, and the magnitude of the earthquake was 9.0 with a maximum seismic intensity of 7....

    Authors: Kineko Sato, Maki Oikawa, Mai Hiwatashi, Mari Sato and Nobuko Oyamada
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:22
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  5. There are no studies about the caregiving burdens in families of patients with eating disorders in Japan, and only limited studies on the role of caregivers’ stress coping, social support, and mental health. T...

    Authors: Chisato Ohara, Gen Komaki, Zentaro Yamagata, Mari Hotta, Toshiko Kamo and Tetuya Ando
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:21
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  6. Cenesthopathy is characterized by abnormal and strange bodily sensations and is classified as a ‘delusional disorder, somatic type’ or ‘somatoform disorder’ according to the DSM 5. The oral cavity is one of th...

    Authors: Yojiro Umezaki, Anna Miura, Motoko Watanabe, Miho Takenoshita, Akihito Uezato, Akira Toriihara, Toru Nishikawa and Akira Toyofuku
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Abdominal bloating is a common symptom in patients with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C). However, it is not included among the required items in the Rome III diagnostic criteria for IBS. Lit...

    Authors: Motoyori Kanazawa, Hiroto Miwa, Ayako Nakagawa, Masanori Kosako, Hiraku Akiho and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:19
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  8. Depression is the leading cause of impaired quality of life and burden upon societies. Social supports can buffer against depressive symptoms effectively. The aim of this study is to determine the type of soci...

    Authors: Hirohito Tsuboi, Hiroshi Hirai and Katsunori Kondo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:18
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  9. Common mental disorders (CMD) during pregnancy can have a clearly harmful influence on both mothers and children. Some studies have reported related factors for mental disorders, such as region-specific backgr...

    Authors: Kentaro Usuda, Daisuke Nishi, Miyuki Makino, Hisateru Tachimori, Yutaka Matsuoka, Yo Sano, Takako Konishi and Tadashi Takeshima
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:17
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:26

  11. Many studies have focused on the decreasing age of onset of eating disorders (EDs). Because school-age children with EDs are likely to suffer worse physical effects than adults, early detection and appropriate...

    Authors: Kaoru Seike, Hisashi Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Ohtani, Shizuo Takamiya, Ryoichi Sakuta and Michiko Nakazato
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:15
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  12. Many dental patients complain of oral symptoms after dental treatment, such as chronic pain or occlusal discomfort, for which the cause remains undetermined. These symptoms are often thought to be mental or em...

    Authors: Akira Toyofuku
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:14
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. Premenstrual disorders such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) interfere with the daily lives of adolescents. The causes of PMS and PMDD are unknown, but lifestyle habits...

    Authors: Mari Tadakawa, Takashi Takeda, Yasutake Monma, Shoko Koga and Nobuo Yaegashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:13
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  14. Oxidative stress is known to be a factor in various diseases. In this study, we investigated whether physical and psychological symptoms of menopause, cardiovascular parameters, body composition, and lifestyle...

    Authors: Asuka Hirose, Masakazu Terauchi, Mihoko Akiyoshi, Yoko Owa, Kiyoko Kato and Toshiro Kubota
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:12
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  15. Yuzu (Citrus junos Sieb. ex Tanaka), a yellow-golden colored citrus fruit, has traditionally been used to promote psychosomatic health in Japan. While the yuzu produces a distinctive, pleasing aroma of citrus and...

    Authors: Tamaki Matsumoto, Tetsuya Kimura and Tatsuya Hayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:11
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  16. Cancer care is currently the most important medical issue in Japan. Total pain of cancer patients consists of a combination of four factors: physical, psychological, social distress, and spiritual pain. Previo...

    Authors: Atsuko Koyama, Hiromichi Matsuoka, Yoichi Ohtake, Chihiro Makimura, Kiyohiro Sakai, Ryo Sakamoto and Masahiko Murata
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:10
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  19. This article discusses the core curriculum for behavioral science, from the perspective of psychology, recommended by the Japanese Society of Behavioral Medicine and seeks to explain how the curriculum can be ...

    Authors: Akihito Shimazu and Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. As the number of immigrants to Japan increases, the health problems of foreign nationals also have an increasing impact on Japanese medical institutions. The aim of this study was to clarify the Japan–specific...

    Authors: Atsuko Koyama, Hirokuni Okumi, Hiromichi Matsuoka, Chihiro Makimura, Ryo Sakamoto and Kiyohiro Sakai
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Behavioral medicine has increased in importance to become a promising field in medical education. The Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health and Toho University School of Medicine were evaluated in...

    Authors: Takeaki Takeuchi and Masahiro Hashizume
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:4
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  25. The BioPsychoSocial Medicine editorial team would like to thank all reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 9 (2015).

    Authors: Gen Komaki, Mutsuhiro Nakao and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:1
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  27. Enhanced processing of emotional stimuli after stress exposure is reported to be associated with stress-induced cortisol. Because enhanced emotional information processing could make cognitive emotion regulati...

    Authors: Hideki Tsumura, Jun Sensaki and Hironori Shimada
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:23
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  29. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a caregiver’s relaxation on the gastric motility function of the patient. The secondary purpose was to evaluate changes in the caregiver’s willingn...

    Authors: Hideaki Hasuo, Kenji Kanbara, Yasuyuki Mizuno, Junji Nishiyama, Mikihiko Fukunaga and Naoko Yunoki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:21
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  31. Most people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are physically inactive. An accelerometer worn on the waist has been used to evaluate physical activity in people with chronic conditions. It is useful for evaluating...

    Authors: Toshihide Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Shyuji Inada, Kenji Shirakura, Naoki Wada, Kimihiko Takeuchi and Masatoshi Matsushita
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:19
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:20

  32. Although previous studies have shown detrimental effects of visual impairment on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), they were primarily conducted on elderly individuals with visual impairment. The objecti...

    Authors: Iguchi Masaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:18
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:9

  33. No epidemiologic survey examining eating disorders in Japan has been done at a national level since 1992. The prevalence of anorexia nervosa, as assessed by questionnaires to hospitals, is thought to be undere...

    Authors: Mari Hotta, Reiko Horikawa, Hiroyo Mabe, Shin Yokoyama, Eiko Sugiyama, Tadato Yonekawa, Masamitsu Nakazato, Yuri Okamoto, Chisato Ohara and Yoshihiro Ogawa
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:17
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  34. Reduced physical activity is supposed to be associated with depressiveness and more passive coping patterns. For further evaluation of this assumed relation we studied energy expenditure due to physical activi...

    Authors: Ulf Elbelt, Anne Ahnis, Andrea Riedl, Silke Burkert, Tatjana Schuetz, Juergen Ordemann, Christian J. Strasburger and Burghard F. Klapp
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:16
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  35. Stressors may differently affect human physiological systems according to the host properties relevant to psycho-behavioral processes that the stressors invoke. In a Japanese multicenter cohort study of patien...

    Authors: Jun Nagano, Nobuyuki Sudo, Shohei Nagaoka, Masao Yukioka and Masakazu Kondo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:15
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  36. Although depression and anxiety have been implicated in risk for major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE), a theoretical approach to identifying such putative links is lacking. The objec...

    Authors: Phillip J. Tully, Helen R. Winefield, Robert A. Baker, Johan Denollet, Susanne S. Pedersen, Gary A. Wittert and Deborah A. Turnbull
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:14
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  38. The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa (AN) is high, and death is mainly attributable to cardiac events. A wide range of autonomic nervous system disturbances may be mechanisms underlying the incr...

    Authors: Yoshikatsu Nakai, Masatoshi Fujita, Kazuko Nin, Shun’ichi Noma and Satoshi Teramukai
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:12
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  42. Many reports have been published concerning how psychosocial stress influences the occurrence and progression of allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma and atopic dermatitis. As for asthma, a typical aller...

    Authors: Kazufumi Yoshihara
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. The influence of a caregiver’s stress on the development of childhood asthma is an important aspect of the treatment and prevention of illness. Many cross-sectional studies have investigated the association be...

    Authors: Noriko Yamamoto and Jun Nagano
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. Several studies have reported an increased tendency towards anger in patients with panic disorder (PD). If this propensity for anger arises from the pathological process of PD, it may be associated with the du...

    Authors: Nagisa Sugaya, Eiji Yoshida, Shin Yasuda, Mamoru Tochigi, Kunio Takei, Takeshi Otowa, Tadashi Umekage, Yoshiaki Konishi, Yuji Sakano, Shinobu Nomura, Yuji Okazaki, Hisanobu Kaiya, Hisashi Tanii and Tsukasa Sasaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:6
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  45. The BioPsychoSocial Medicine editorial team would like to thank the following colleagues who contributed to peer review for the journal in Volume 8 (2014).

    Authors: Koji Tsuboi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:5
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  46. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of prolonged stress on the salivary adrenal hormones (cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone [DHEA], DHEA-sulfate [DHEA-S]) of individuals with irritable bowel...

    Authors: Nagisa Sugaya, Shuhei Izawa, Keisuke Saito, Kentaro Shirotsuki, Shinobu Nomura and Hironori Shimada
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:4
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  47. The Japanese Coronary-prone Behaviour Scale (JCBS) is a questionnaire developed by the Eastern Collaborative Group Study (ECGS), a multi-centre study of coronary-prone behaviour among Japanese men. Subscale C ...

    Authors: Reiko Hori, Jun-ichiro Hayano, Kazuhiro Kimura, Nitaro Shibata and Fumio Kobayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:3
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  48. An understanding of eating behaviors is an important element of health education and treatment in clinical populations. To understand the biopsychosocial profile of eating behaviors in an ecologically valid wa...

    Authors: Hiroe Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Shuji Inada, Tetsuya Ando and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:2
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  49. Recent neuroimaging studies have investigated the brain involvement in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Functional studies found abnormalities in cognitive and emotional function...

    Authors: Alessandro Agostini, Massimo Campieri, Angela Bertani, Antonella Scarcelli, Daniela Ballotta, Carlo Calabrese, Fernando Rizzello, Paolo Gionchetti, Paolo Nichelli and Francesca Benuzzi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2015 9:1
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  50. Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) often complain of persistent fatigue even after conventional therapies such as pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, or graded exercise therapy. The aim of...

    Authors: Takakazu Oka, Tokusei Tanahashi, Takeharu Chijiwa, Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren, Nobuyuki Sudo and Kae Oka
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:27
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