{"title":"The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome--nosology and differential diagnosis.","authors":"C A Tassinari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"237-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15054482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Movement-related cerebral potentials in schizophrenics.","authors":"Y Takasaka","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02901.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02901.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measures concerning the P2 component of movement-related cerebral potentials (MPs) (the time from the trigger produced by key-tapping to the onset of P2: T-N latency, the width of P2: N-P interval, and the amplitude of P2: N-P amplitude) and various clinical factors of 36 schizophrenics were studied and statistically compared with those of 35 normal subjects. Concerning the P2 component, 22/36 of the schizophrenics showed abnormal findings. These three measures, especially the N-P interval, are significantly related to various clinical symptoms at the stage when the MPs were recorded but are not related to the previous worst stage. The chronicity of schizophrenic illness influenced each measure of the T-N latency and N-P interval, both of which were significantly longer than those of the normal subjects. The pressure strength, the velocity of key-tapping, the duration of muscular contraction, (namely the manner of key-tapping) and the daily dosage of neuroleptics did not affect the P2 component. These results suggest that 1) the P2 component of MPs is related to certain brain functions as a signal of information processing concerning action and not to the peripheral feed-back mechanism and 2) abnormal waveforms of the MPs found in pathological psychiatric conditions of schizophrenia may be a reflection of disturbances of the central mechanism concerning action, attention and volition.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 2","pages":"173-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02901.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15177696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handedness conversion in children and parental handedness.","authors":"A Shimizu, M Endo","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01940.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01940.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to find out which factor, genetic or environmental, is more involved in determining hand usage, the distribution of handedness in Japanese senior high school students and the success of their parents' attempts at conversion of handedness was investigated with respect to four pairings of parental handedness. When a child's handedness was related to that of the parent, children of a left-handed parent were more likely to be non-right-handed than those of both right-handed parents. There was no significant relation between parental handedness and the rate of handedness conversion of children. The results are in favor of the view that human handedness is genetically rather than forcibly determined by parents, although environmental factors such as parents' interference are involved in decreasing the incidence of non-right-handedness in Japan.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 1","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01940.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15166776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prevalence of epilepsy in Okayama Prefecture: a neuroepidemiologic study.","authors":"S Ishida","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02012.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02012.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the prevalence day, 2,378 epileptic children were identified. Therefore, the prevalence rate for epilepsy was 8.2 per 1,000. The lowest prevalence rate was 1.2 in children under one year of age, and the highest was 11.0 at five years of age. The rate was higher for males than females. The annual incidence rate for epilepsy was estimated at 145.0 per 100,000 for 1975. The onset of seizures was high in the first three years, totaling 1,795 cases (77.7%), and this decreased after four years of age. Primary generalized epilepsy was found in 577 cases (31.7%), secondary generalized epilepsy in 167 (9.2%), partial epilepsy with elementary symptomatology in 205 (11.3%), with complex symptomatology in 61 (3.3%) and partial seizures secondarily generalized in 801 (44.5%). The study on such a number of cases had hitherto never been reported in the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"325-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02012.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14949477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Matsuo, R Nose, K Yoshida, N Fujikawa, K Takagi, Y Nose, K Ikari
{"title":"Relationship between sibship size and neurotic symptoms of anxiety, hypochondriasis and depression in Japanese neurotic children and adolescents.","authors":"T Matsuo, R Nose, K Yoshida, N Fujikawa, K Takagi, Y Nose, K Ikari","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00800.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00800.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two hundred and sixty-eight Japanese aged 19 or below were studied retrospectively from their medical records to determine the relationship between the sibship size (number of siblings in the family) and the appearance of symptoms of anxiety, hypochondriasis and depression during the time period I (1955 + 1960 + 1965) and the time period II (1970 + 1975 + 1978). The results showed that only sons and either sex of a large sibship size (4 or more) possessed these three symptoms to a larger extent than only daughters and either sex of a medium sibship size (2 or 3) during both time periods. These three adult-type neurotic symptoms were thought to be manifested among the children and adolescents who communicated primarily with adults and/or those who were required by their parents to exhibit adult-type behavior whether in traditional or in modern Japanese families.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 4","pages":"473-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00800.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14951331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Imaoka, H Inoue, Y Inoue, H Hazama, T Tanaka, N Yamane
{"title":"R-R intervals of ECG in depression.","authors":"K Imaoka, H Inoue, Y Inoue, H Hazama, T Tanaka, N Yamane","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00801.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00801.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ECG measurements of consecutive 100 R-R intervals were done on depressive patients. The patient group presented lower mean values for coefficients of variation (CV) at each generation than the control group (normal subjects); the differences were significant especially for the subjects 40 to 49 years of age (P less than 0.05) and for those 60 to 69 years of age (P less than 0.01). These results can probably be regarded as a significant and objective index of autonomic disturbances in depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 4","pages":"485-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00801.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14951332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Nishimura, K Yagi, S Ishida, M Seino, K Miyamoto
{"title":"The reliability of monoamine levels in the kindled brain.","authors":"S Nishimura, K Yagi, S Ishida, M Seino, K Miyamoto","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02010.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02010.x","url":null,"abstract":"Possible changes in the monoamine levels of the brain in relation to seizure susceptibility has been a subject of controversy for the past three decades. Since kindling was introduced as an ideal experimental model of human epilepsy, correlative studies between the monoamines and the acquisition of epileptogenesis have been strongly reinforced. The reported results, however, did not necessarily correspond among individual investigators.' :j Unless it is made clear whether or not the disagreement was due to the method they employed for quantification, the significance of the obtained results may remain obscure. We carried out a comparative study in order to explore the inter-method variability of measurement using rats placed on long-term kindling. What should concern us first is the comparison of the measured values between the brains of kindled animals and controls. When non-treated naive rats were chosen in place of sham-operated rats, there were subtle differences between the two groups. First, the level of dopamine content of the sham group was lower as compared to that of the non-treated group so that the sham animals are preferable to serve as control to the non-treated ones. The second problem that concerned us was the technical matter as to how the ani-","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"321-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02010.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14949476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the Japanese Committee for the International Diagnostic Criteria in Psychiatry (JCIDCP). November 10, 1984, Tokyo.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"451-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14949478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case of cerebral infarction showing periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges.","authors":"K Nonaka, H Kojima, T Ohkawa, K Inanaga","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01946.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01946.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a report about the case of a 37-year-old female with left temporal damage due to a cerebral infarction and showing periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs). A hypsarhythmia-like pattern was observed a week after the onset. A repeat tracing of EEGs taken two weeks after the onset clarified the presence of PLEDs, consisting of a lateralized slow spike discharge in a rhythmic fashion at a frequency of every 1.6 seconds. PLEDs disappeared two months after the onset, and EEG activity normalized three months after the onset. But, her regressive behavior, crying before her doctor, which was considered to be due to a personality change, persisted for some years.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 1","pages":"79-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01946.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15166781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prognostic factors of primary generalized epilepsy: a reappraisal of 96 cases in terminal remission.","authors":"L W Wu, S Kugimiya, Y Numata, T Wada","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02897.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02897.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ninety-six patients whose diagnosis was definitively confirmed as primary generalized epilepsy (PGE) were divided into two groups according to the duration of recurrent seizures--A group for less than 7 years and B group for more than 7 years. The patients of both groups were completely free of seizures for more than 3 years at the time of the survey. A retrospective comparison was made between these two groups in terms of clinical and EEG features. Emphasis was placed on the B group which was characterized by an unfavorable seizure outcome. From a prognostic point of view, the risk factors indicative of an unfavorable outcome of seizures were found as follows: a) the presence of generalized tonic-clonic convulsions (GTCs) prior to the occurrence of minor seizures and persisting GTCs following the subsidence of minor seizures, b) scanty epileptic EEG findings in spite of the sporadic occurrence of GTCs, and c) GTCs tended to associate with various seizure-inducing factors. As a conclusion, along with appropriate drug treatment, the necessity of comprehensive approaches to the patients' everyday life was emphasized in order to achieve a favorable seizure outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 2","pages":"139-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02897.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15177693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}