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  1. Although hyperventilation syndrome generally carries a good prognosis, it is associated with the risk of developing severe symptoms, such as post-hyperventilation apnea with hypoxemia and loss of consciousness...

    Authors: Masato Kobayashi, Shinji Kurata, Takuro Sanuki, Ichiro Okayasu and Takao Ayuse
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:26
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  2. Intraoral disease is a common occurrence in patients with eating disorders, particularly dental erosion, which frequently becomes severe and may hinder daily life. The severity varies from patient to patient. ...

    Authors: Mitsuhiro Otsu, Akira Hamura, Yuiko Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Karibe, Tomoyasu Ichijyo and Yoko Yoshinaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:25
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  3. Dry mouth is very common symptom, and psychological factors have an influence on this symptom. Although the influence of emotional factor related to patients with oral dryness has been examined in previous stu...

    Authors: Hirofumi Matsuoka, Itsuo Chiba, Yuji Sakano, Ichiro Saito and Yoshihiro Abiko
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:24
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  5. Orthostatic intolerance is common in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and several studies have documented an abnormal sympathetic predominance in the autonomic cardiovascular response to gravitational stimuli. ...

    Authors: Vegard Bruun Wyller, Even Fagermoen, Dag Sulheim, Anette Winger, Eva Skovlund and Jerome Philip Saul
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:22
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  6. The activity of creatine kinase (CK) in serum has recently been reported to be potentially associated with several types of depression. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether serum enzymes, including CK,...

    Authors: Ayako Kato, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Hirohito Tsuboi, Asami Tatsumi, Masanobu Akimoto, Kayoko Shimoi, Takeshi Ishii, Hiroshi Kaneko, Tsutomu Nakayama and Norio Ohashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:21
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  7. This study was done to determine which psychosocial factors are related to the urgent hospitalization of anorexia nervosa patients (AN) due to extremely poor physical condition and to evaluate their outcome af...

    Authors: Keisuke Kawai, Sakino Yamashita, Gen Komaki, Miki Shimizu, Megumi Nakashima, Samami Etou, Shu Takakura, Masato Takii, Chiharu Kubo and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:20
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  8. Patient empowerment has recently been proposed as an important concept in self-management for effective glycemic control. A concise self-completed questionnaire for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was c...

    Authors: Yoriko Hara, Sanae Iwashita, Akira Okada, Yuji Tajiri, Hitomi Nakayama, Tomoko Kato, Motoyuki Nakao, Koji Tsuboi, Raoul Breugelmans and Yoko Ishihara
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:19
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  10. The frequency of antidepressant (ADs) prescription is high, with general practitioners (GPs) responsible for about 80% of the prescriptions. Some studies considered prescriptions meet DSM criteria, while other...

    Authors: Alain Mercier, Isabelle Auger-Aubin, Jean-Pierre Lebeau, Matthieu Schuers, Pascal Boulet, Paul Van Royen and Lieve Peremans
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:17
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  11. We previously found that the empowerment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus can be strongly affected by gender and age in addition to self-managed diet and exercise behaviors and treatment. This study w...

    Authors: Yoriko Hara, Mizuho Hisatomi, Hisao Ito, Motoyuki Nakao, Koji Tsuboi and Yoko Ishihara
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:16
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  12. A survey was conducted amongst 1,017 Hong Kong residents ages 18 and over to determine their knowledge of fungal nail infections (onychomycosis) and the psychosocial impact of the disease on the relationships,...

    Authors: Henry HL Chan, Emma T Wong and Chi Keung Yeung
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:15
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  13. This research, conducted in 1998 and 2008, uses go/no-go data to investigate the fundamentals of cognitive functioning in the inhibitory control ability of Japanese children. 844 subjects from kindergarten to ...

    Authors: Koji Terasawa, Hisaaki Tabuchi, Hiroki Yanagisawa, Akitaka Yanagisawa, Kikunori Shinohara, Saiki Terasawa, Osamitsu Saijo and Takeo Masaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:14
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  14. To assess psychosocial functioning and distress of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis compared to healthy controls.

    Authors: Konstantina Kostakou, George Giannakopoulos, Stavroula Diareme, Chara Tzavara, Stavros Doudounakis, Stelios Christogiorgos, Chryssa Bakoula and Gerasimos Kolaitis
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:13
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  15. Healthy university students have been shown to use psychoactive substances, expecting them to be functional means for enhancing their cognitive capacity, sometimes over and above an essentially proficient leve...

    Authors: Wanja Wolff, Ralf Brand, Franz Baumgarten, Johanna Lösel and Matthias Ziegler
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:12
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  16. The evaluation and management of stress are important for the prevention of both depression and cardiovascular disease. In addition, the maintenance of the oral condition of the elderly is essential to enable ...

    Authors: Katsuhisa Sakano, Koufuchi Ryo, Yoh Tamaki, Ryoko Nakayama, Ayaka Hasaka, Ayako Takahashi, Shukuko Ebihara, Keisuke Tozuka and Ichiro Saito
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:11
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  17. The visceral sensitivity index (VSI) is a useful self-report measure of the gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety (GSA) of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Previous research has shown that wor...

    Authors: Tatsuo Saigo, Jun Tayama, Toyohiro Hamaguchi, Naoki Nakaya, Tadaaki Tomiie, Peter J Bernick, Motoyori Kanazawa, Jennifer S Labus, Bruce D Naliboff, Susumu Shirabe and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:10
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  18. Cortisol awakening response (CAR) as an indicator of psychological stress and related physical and psychiatric diseases has attracted growing attention from researchers. Although CAR changes have been investig...

    Authors: Ikuhiko Shibuya, Shinichiro Nagamitsu, Hisayoshi Okamura, Shuichi Ozono, Hiromi Chiba, Takashi Ohya, Yushiro Yamashita and Toyojiro Matsuishi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:9
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  19. The repression of negative emotions is a personality factor that received considerable attention in the 1950-60s as being relevant to the onset and course of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite subsequent, repe...

    Authors: Jun Nagano, Takako Morita, Koji Taneichi, Shohei Nagaoka, Sadanobu Katsube, Tomiaki Asai, Masao Yukioka, Kiyoshi Takasugi, Masakazu Kondo and Yasuro Nishibayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:8
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  20. The editors of BioPsychoSocial Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 7 (2013).

    Authors: Koji Tsuboi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:2
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledge Published on:

  21. Acupuncture and moxibustion, which medical doctors are licensed by the government of Japan to perform, can improve the psychological relationship between doctors and patients, especially when it is disturbed b...

    Authors: Tetsuya Kondo and Masazumi Kawamoto
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. Kampo medicines are currently manufactured under strict quality controls. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan has approved 148 Kampo formulas. There is increasing evidence for the efficacy of K...

    Authors: Hirokuni Okumi and Atsuko Koyama
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. This article reviews the effectiveness of Kampo (traditional Japanese herbal medicine) in the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders, especially functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndro...

    Authors: Takakazu Oka, Hirokuni Okumi, Shinji Nishida, Takashi Ito, Shinichi Morikiyo, Yoko Kimura and Masato Murakami
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Previous studies have shown that the practice of yoga reduces perceived stress and negative feelings and that it improves psychological symptoms. Our previous study also suggested that long-term yoga training ...

    Authors: Kazufumi Yoshihara, Tetsuya Hiramoto, Takakazu Oka, Chiharu Kubo and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2014 8:1
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  27. The efficacy of physical exercise as an augmentation to pharmacotherapy with antidepressants for depressive patients has been documented. However, to clarify the effectiveness of exercise in the treatment of d...

    Authors: Megumi Ida, Itsurou Ida, Naoki Wada, Makoto Sohmiya, Masayuki Tazawa and Kenji Shirakura
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:18
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  28. During adolescence children are usually confronted with an expanding social arena. Apart from families, schools and neighbourhoods, peers, classmates, teachers, and other adult figures gain increasing importan...

    Authors: Dimitra Petanidou, Evangelie Daskagianni, Christine Dimitrakaki, Gerasimos Kolaitis and Yannis Tountas
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:17
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  29. A serious problem currently plaguing the medical field is the widening gap between academic medicine, which studies the features and causes of illness, and the medical care that patients desire. An example of ...

    Authors: Takahisa Ushiroyama
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. Medication non-adherence is often a predominant problem in the management of hypertension and other chronic conditions. In explaining health behaviours, social determinants like spirituality and religiosity ar...

    Authors: Irene Kretchy, Frances Owusu-Daaku and Samuel Danquah
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Although social skills training programs for people with high-functioning autism (HFA) are widely practiced, the standardization of curricula, the examination of clinical effectiveness, and the evaluation of t...

    Authors: Kayoko Ichikawa, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Ando, Tokie Anme, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Hinako Yamaguchi and Takeo Nakayama
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:14
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  32. Previous studies confirmed that the control of diabetes is related to family functioning, but the validity of the tools used to assess family functioning in these studies is questionable. Few studies have focu...

    Authors: Hiroaki Takenaka, Juichi Sato, Tomio Suzuki and Nobutaro Ban
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. To investigate possible differences in emotional/behavioral problems and cognitive function in children with nephrotic syndrome compared to healthy controls and to examine the effect of disease-specific and st...

    Authors: Panagiota Manti, George Giannakopoulos, Elena Giouroukou, Helen Georgaki-Angelaki, Constantinos J Stefanidis, Andromahi Mitsioni, Nikolaos Stergiou, Constantinos Mihas, George P Chrousos, Maria Alexandra Magiakou and Gerasimos Kolaitis
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:10
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  36. The prognosis of hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) is generally good. However, it is important to proceed with care when treating HVS because cases of death following hyperventilation have been reported. This pa...

    Authors: Takao Munemoto, Akinori Masuda, Nobuatsu Nagai, Muneki Tanaka and Soejima Yuji
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  38. Low-grade fever is a common symptom in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but the mechanisms responsible for its development are poorly understood. We submit this case report that suggests that psyc...

    Authors: Takakazu Oka, Yoshio Kanemitsu, Nobuyuki Sudo, Haruo Hayashi and Kae Oka
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  39. The editors of BioPsychoSocial Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 6 (2012).

    Authors: Koji Tsuboi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:3
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledge Published on:

  40. Residual alcohol effects on physiological and psychological symptoms are commonly experienced the morning after alcohol consumption. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of L-ornithine on subjec...

    Authors: Takeshi Kokubo, Emiko Ikeshima, Takayoshi Kirisako, Yutaka Miura, Masahisa Horiuchi and Akira Tsuda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is characterized by severe impairment and multiple symptoms. Autonomic dysregulation has been demonstrated in several studies. We aimed at exploring the relationship between indi...

    Authors: Vegard B Wyller and Ingrid B Helland
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:5
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  42. Patients with chronic pain are found with highly variable clinical presentation and differing physical complaints. They are seen as a heterogenic group. Based on clinical observations, elderly patients seem to...

    Authors: Bernd Bergander, Laurence Erdur, Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz and Hans-Christian Deter
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Previous studies have reported that patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) show high neuroticism. However, the precise association between the IBS subtypes and the degree of neuroticism in younger popula...

    Authors: Jun Tayama, Naoki Nakaya, Toyohiro Hamaguchi, Tadaaki Tomiie, Masae Shinozaki, Tatsuo Saigo, Susumu Shirabe and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Patients with chest pain or palpitations often have poor outcomes following a negative cardiac evaluation, with symptom persistence, limitations in everyday activities, and reduced health-related quality of li...

    Authors: Egil Jonsbu, Egil W Martinsen, Gunnar Morken, Torbjørn Moum and Toril Dammen
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:19
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  48. Tension-type headache is a common psychosomatic disease. However, diurnal variation of headache is yet to be clarified, perhaps due to the lack of an appropriate method to investigate it. Like other painful di...

    Authors: Hiroe Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Gen Komaki and Akira Akabayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. With the “ASIA-LINK” program, the European Community has supported the development and implementation of a curriculum of postgraduate psychosomatic training for medical doctors in China, Vietnam and Laos. Curr...

    Authors: Kurt Fritzsche, Peter Scheib, Nayeong Ko, Michael Wirsching, Andrea Kuhnert, Jie Hick, Gerhard Schüßler, Wenyuan Wu, Shen Yuan, Nguyen Huu Cat, Sisouk Vongphrachanh, Ngo Tich Linh and Ngyuen Kim Viet
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional disorder of the digestive tract that causes chronic abdominal symptoms. We evaluated the effects of Lactobacillus brevis KB290 (KB290), which has been demonstrated t...

    Authors: Katsumi Murakami, Chizu Habukawa, Yukihiro Nobuta, Naohiko Moriguchi and Tsukasa Takemura
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:16
    Content type: Research Published on:
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