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  1. Australia has a thriving Psycho-Oncology research and clinical community. In this article, the Australian health system in which Psycho-Oncology is embedded is described. Clinical Psycho-Oncology services are ...

    Authors: P. Butow, H. Dhillon, J. Shaw and M. Price
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:15
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Latent trigger points (LTrPs) can be activated by future events, leading to pain. Few studies have reported LTrP risk factors. It has been suggested that alexithymia is associated with myofascial pain and dimi...

    Authors: Hideaki Hasuo, Kenji Kanbara, Tetsuya Abe, Mikihiko Fukunaga and Naoko Yunoki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:31
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  3. Obesity is one of the fastest growing modern day epidemics affecting preventable disease and premature deaths. Healthy lifestyle behaviours, such as physical activity and nutritional consumption, have been sho...

    Authors: Sarah J. Lacey and Tamara D. Street
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:30
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  6. Menstrual problems can significantly impact daily and work life. In reaction to a shrinking population, the Japanese government is encouraging more women to participate in the labor force. Actual success in ac...

    Authors: Mariko Nishikitani, Mutsuhiro Nakao, Shinobu Tsurugano, Mariko Inoure and Eiji Yano
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:26
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  7. In Japan, patients generally have free access to any hospital or clinic. This could lead to reduced efficiency in the treatment for eating disorders (EDs) because there are only a limited number of doctors who...

    Authors: Junko Moriya, Mami Kayano and Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:27
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  8. Computerized cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) programs can provide a useful self-help approach to the treatment of psychological problems. Previous studies have shown that CCBT has moderate effects on depres...

    Authors: Kentaro Shirotsuki, Yuji Nonaka, Keiichi Abe, So-ichiro Adachi, Shohei Adachi, Tomifusa Kuboki and Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:23
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  9. Patients with anorexia nervosa in the acute phase have physical complications, such as infectious disease. Although hemophagocytic syndrome due to infection is a rare complication in anorexia nervosa, early id...

    Authors: Masao Suda, Shinichiro Nagamitsu, Masahiro Kinosita, Michiko Matsuoka, Shuichi Ozono, Yasushi Otsu, Yushiro Yamashita and Toyojiro Matsuishi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:24
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  10. Self-help cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a useful approach for the treatment of psychological problems. Recent research on the effectiveness of self-help internet-based CBT (ICBT) indicates that the parad...

    Authors: Kentaro Shirotsuki, Yuji Nonaka, Jiro Takano, Keiichi Abe, So-ichiro Adachi, Shohei Adachi and Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. We examined how purging behaviors relate to subjective sleep quality and sleep patterns and how symptoms of disordered eating behaviors relate to global sleep quality in female patients with anorexia nervosa (...

    Authors: Tokusei Tanahashi, Keisuke Kawai, Keita Tatsushima, Chihiro Saeki, Kunie Wakabayashi, Naho Tamura, Tetsuya Ando and Toshio Ishikawa
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2018 12:5

  12. Atypical odontalgia (AO) is a disease characterized by continuous pain affecting the teeth or tooth sockets after extraction in the absence of any identifiable cause on clinical or radiographic examination. An...

    Authors: Miho Takenoshita, Anna Miura, Yukiko Shinohara, Rou Mikuzuki, Shiori Sugawara, Trang Thi Huyen Tu, Kaoru Kawasaki, Takeru Kyuragi, Yojiro Umezaki and Akira Toyofuku
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:21
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  14. Administration of valproic acid (VPA) is complicated with approximately 0.9% of patients developing hyperammonemia, but the pathogenesis of this adverse effect remains to be clarified. The aim of the present s...

    Authors: Masazumi Ando, Hideaki Amayasu, Takahiro Itai and Hisahiro Yoshida
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:19
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  15. The aim of this study was to clarify the changes in biological measures during autogenic training (AT) sessions and the relationship between these biological measures and the changes in physical and psychologi...

    Authors: Tadashi Kiba, Tetsuya Abe, Kenji Kanbara, Fumie Kato, Sadanobu Kawashima, Yukie Saka, Kazumi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Mizuno, Junji Nishiyama and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:17
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  16. Somatization is produced due to the summation of psychological factors, irrespective of the presence or absence of physical factors. A group of diseases with severe pain and other disorders exhibit so-called M...

    Authors: Yuzo Nakamura, Takeaki Takeuchi, Kazuaki Hashimoto and Masahiro Hashizume
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:16
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  18. Weight regain is a common problem following weight loss intervention, with most people who seek treatment for obesity able to lose weight, but few able to sustain the changes in behavior required to prevent su...

    Authors: Ryoko Sawamoto, Takehiro Nozaki, Tomoe Nishihara, Tomokazu Furukawa, Tomokazu Hata, Gen Komaki and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:14
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  19. Chronic pain enhances sensory sensitivity and induces the biased development of psychological traits such as depression and pain catastrophizing, leading to the formation of heterogeneous conditions. Fluctuati...

    Authors: Fumie Kato, Tetsuya Abe, Kenji Kanbara, Ikumi Ban, Tadashi Kiba, Sadanobu Kawashima, Yukie Saka, Yasuyuki Mizuno and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:13
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  20. Psycho-oncology in Korea was introduced among the circle of consultation-liaison psychiatrists, in the 1990s. For almost 25 years, the field has been developing at a steady pace as the psychosocial needs of pa...

    Authors: Hyun Jeong Lee, Kwang-Min Lee, Dooyoung Jung, Eun-Jung Shim, Bong-Jin Hahm and Jong-Heun Kim
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Cancer is commonly perceived as life-threatening and universally stressful; however, brief psychotic disorder, which occurs in response to extremely stressful events, has not been reported.

    Authors: Mayumi Ishida, Satoshi Kawada and Hideki Onishi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:10
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  24. Global assessment allows patients to assess improvement in multiple irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. However, it was deemed important to assess “clinically meaningful improvements, focusing on the pati...

    Authors: Motoko Ida, Akito Nishida, Hiraku Akiho, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Kei Matsueda and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Previous studies have indicated that ramosetron, a 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 receptor antagonist, achieves global improvement in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms in male patients with IBS with diarrhea (IBS...

    Authors: Motoko Ida, Akito Nishida, Hiraku Akiho, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Kei Matsueda and Shin Fukudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:7
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  26. Our previous randomized controlled trial demonstrated that isometric yoga in a sitting position reduces fatigue in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). However, some patie...

    Authors: Takakazu Oka, Hisako Wakita and Keishin Kimura
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Job crafting, an employee-initiated job design/redesign, has become important for employees’ well-being. However, most studies on the relationship between job crafting and employees’ well-being have been condu...

    Authors: Asuka Sakuraya, Akihito Shimazu, Hisashi Eguchi, Kimika Kamiyama, Yujiro Hara, Katsuyuki Namba and Norito Kawakami
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Evaluating health needs includes measures of the impact of state of health on the quality of life. This entails evaluating the psychosocial aspects of health. To achieve this, several tools for measuring the q...

    Authors: Noeline Razanamihaja and Eva Ranivoharilanto
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:2
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  29. Obstacles to pain management include patients’ reluctance to inform healthcare provides about their pain, and differences in the pain management aims between patients and healthcare providers. The objective of...

    Authors: Hideaki Hasuo, Hiroaki Kusunoki, Kenji Kanbara, Tetsuya Abe, Naoko Yunoki, Ken Haruma and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:4
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  30. Within national and international societies of psychosomatic medicine the idea has emerged of bringing together and coordinating psychosomatic, behavioural, psychological and medical actions with common intere...

    Authors: Hans-Christian Deter, Kristina Orth-Gomér, Bohdan Wasilewski and Ramiro Verissimo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Daylight hours in high-latitude regions tend to be longer than those in Japan in summer, and shorter than those in Japan in winter. For example, daylight hours in London in winter are one-third those of Tokyo....

    Authors: Yumiko Kurata, Shuhei Izawa and Shinobu Nomura
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:33
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  34. It is important for clinicians to assess their patients’ purging behavior. Various methods of purging, such as self-induced vomiting are well-known. Because patients do not always report their purging behavior...

    Authors: Takeshi Horie, Saki Harashima, Ryo Yoneda, Maiko Hiraide, Shuji Inada, Makoto Otani and Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:32
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  35. Job burnout has become a rampant epidemic in working societies, causing high productivity loss and healthcare costs. An easy accessible tool to detect clinically relevant risk may bear the potential to timely ...

    Authors: Roland von Känel, Marc van Nuffel and Walther J. Fuchs
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:31
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Panic disorder (PD) is highly prevalent in patients with non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP). This study aims to explore the role of psychological factors (PD intensity, anxiety sensitivity, heart-related fear, atte...

    Authors: Guillaume Foldes-Busque, Stéphanie Hamel, Geneviève Belleville, Richard Fleet, Julien Poitras, Jean-Marc Chauny, Alain Vadeboncoeur, Kim L. Lavoie and André Marchand
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:30
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  37. It has been customary for working women in Japan to retire when they marry and to devote themselves to household work as well as having children. However, according to a report published by the Ministry of Int...

    Authors: Karin Hayashi, Yoichi Taira, Takamitsu Maeda, Yumie Matsuda, Yuki Kato, Kozue Hashi, Nobuo Kuroki and Shuichi Katsuragawa
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:29
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  38. The lowering of the age of onset and chronicity have been key problems related to eating disorders (EDs). As the proportion of teens in the estimated onset ages has increased, it has become important to detect...

    Authors: Kaoru Seike, Michiko Nakazato, Hisashi Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Ohtani, Tomihisa Niitsu, Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Atsuko Ayabe, Ryoko Otani, Kentaro Kawabe, Fumie Horiuchi, Shizuo Takamiya and Ryoichi Sakuta
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:28
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  39. Carotid sinus syndrome (CSS) can cause prodromal symptoms of syncope such as dizziness and nausea. Patients with end-stage cancer lose self-efficacy associated with reduced activities of daily life (ADL). Here...

    Authors: Hideaki Hasuo, Kenji Kanbara, Hiroko Sakuma, Rie Matsumori and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:27
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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:

  47. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. 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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  49. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:26

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