Shunichiro Michitsuji

TL;DR: In the conjunction search, the schizophrenic subjects showed steeper slopes than the normal subjects for target absence (but not for target presence), suggesting that there was a deficit in the focal attentional process.

TL;DR: Results suggest that rates of depression in Asia may not be much lower than those reported in Western countries, and differences in symptoms were noted.

TL;DR: Chronic schizophrenics had a battery of neuropsychological tests which consisted of WAIS, Visual Memory Test, Word Fluency Test, Animal Drawing Test and Kana Word Test, and the schizophrenic group was significantly inferior to the normal control group, whereas it was not so impaired as the frontal lobe damaged patients.

TL;DR: Investigating the course of negative symptoms of 59 new schizophrenic patients at the first consultation and again two years later using a structured interview–the Present State Examination found the presence of “incoherence of thought,”“delusion of reference” and “special features of depression” was significantly higher in the improvement group than in the deterioration group.

TL;DR: Looking at diagnostic classification of dementia, the ratio of multi-infarct dementia to the Alzheimer type is 0.93 in Nagasaki City and 0.61 in rural districts, which are lower than those in the other studies.