No abstract available.
Femur* ; Humans

OBJECTIVE: The practice of antipsychotic polypharmacy is common, despite lack of supporting evidence. The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of antipsychotic polypharmacy in a psychiatric university hospital in Korea and find out the clinical factors associated with antipsychotic polypharmacy. METHODS: We reviewed medical records of the patients discharged from Severance Mental Health Hospital (SMH) for the period of 1, January to 31, December 2010. Patients should be diagnosed as having schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder or psychotic disorder not otherwise specified. RESULTS: In 2010, 260 patients in SMH were prescribed with antipsychotics and 47.3% (n=123) of them were discharged under antipsychotic polypharmacy treatment. The most commonly prescribed antipsychotics for combination therapy was quetiapine (n=64). The most prevalent combination of drugs was risperidone plus quetiapine (n=20). Logistic regression analysis showed that the use of high-dose antipsychotics, first-generation antipsychotics, and long hospital duration were significantly associated with antipsychotic polypharmacy. CONCLUSION: Although the controlled evidence for efficacy and safety as a strategy remains inconclusive, antipsychotic polypharmacy is a common pharmacological strategy as it is illustrated in our study. Considering high antipsychotic doses related with antipsychotic polypharmacy, careful monitoring of side effect and efficacy is needed.
Antipsychotic Agents ; Dibenzothiazepines ; Humans ; Korea ; Logistic Models ; Medical Records ; Mental Health ; Polypharmacy ; Prevalence ; Psychotic Disorders ; Risperidone ; Schizophrenia ; Schizophrenia, Paranoid ; Quetiapine Fumarate

OBJECTIVES: Though gastric cancer is one of the most common cancer in Korea, there have been few studies to explore psychological distress in gastric cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and associated risk factors of psychological distress among patients with gastric cancer. METHODS: With consecutive sampling, a total of 274 patients with gastric cancer who admitted to a cancer center in a general hospital were recruited and assessed on psychological distress using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS). Sociodemographic and cancer-related clinical variables were also evaluated. RESULTS: One hundred fifty-three(55.8%) patients with gastric cancer showed psychological distress. Logistic regression models revealed that having alcohol drinking experience[odds ratio(OR)=2.10, p=0,034] and low performance status(OR=2.40 p=0.002) were significantly associated with psychological distress in patients with gastric cancer. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that approximately half of patients with gastric cancer suffered from psychological distress and having alcohol drinking experience and low performance status would be associated risk factors, suggesting the need for distress screening and psychosocial supportive care in patients with gastric cancer.
Alcohol Drinking ; Anxiety ; Depression ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Korea ; Logistic Models ; Mass Screening ; Prevalence ; Risk Factors ; Stomach Neoplasms

No abstract available.
Colorectal Neoplasms* ; Loss of Heterozygosity*

OBJECTIVES: We studied the psychometric properties of a Korean version of the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (K-AIHQ), which measures hostile social-cognitive biases for use in the research on paranoia. METHODS: The translation and back-translation of the AIHQ with concern for the cultural differences were done according to the standard procedure. A sample of 83 healthy volunteers completed the K-AIHQ. RESULTS: The scores of the K-AIHQ were comparable to the results of the original studies. The Paranoia Scale was correlated with the K-AIHQ, but Magical Ideation and Perceptual Aberration scales were not correlated with the K-AIHQ. The interrater reliabilities of the items in each situation were in the acceptable range. CONCLUSION: The KAIHQ seems to be a reliable and valid test to measure the hostile social cognitive biases of patients with paranoia.
Bias (Epidemiology) ; Hostility ; Humans ; Intention ; Magic ; Paranoid Disorders ; Psychometrics ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Weights and Measures

PURPOSE: We have previously cloned three enhancer factor genes encoding proteins that bind to long terminal repeats (LTRs) of Rous sarcoma virus. Among these genes, RSV- EF-I gene is expressed in rat hepatoma tissues and several proliferating cell lines but not in normal rat liver tissues. We have isolated the human homologue of RSV-EF-I gene and examined its expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma tissues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We have screened the human genomic library and cDNA library of Hep G2 cell line derived from human hepatocellular carcinoma to isolate the human homologue of RSV-EF-I gene. RESULTS: We have isolated one cDNA clone containing about 1.5 kb insert and sequenced. Sequence analysis reveals that this human homologue of RSV-EF-I gene has a high similarities to human YB-1 mRNA, human DNA-binding protein B (dbpB) gene and other Y-box protein genes. It is expressed in human hepatocellular carcinoma but very slightly in normal human liver tissues in Northern blot analysis. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the human homologue of RSV-EF-I gene presumably belongs to Y-box protein family genes and plays a role in the transformation of the human hepatoma cells.
Animals ; Blotting, Northern ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular* ; Cell Line ; Clone Cells ; DNA, Complementary ; Gene Library ; Genomic Library ; Hep G2 Cells ; Humans* ; Liver ; Rats ; RNA, Messenger ; Rous sarcoma virus* ; Sarcoma, Avian* ; Sequence Analysis ; Terminal Repeat Sequences

OBJECTIVES: Sleep disturbance is a very rapidly growing disease with aging. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of sleep disturbances and its predictive factors in a three-year cohort study of people aged 60 years and over in Korea. METHODS: In 2012 and 2014, we obtained data from a survey of the Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. We asked participants if they had been diagnosed with stroke, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, arthritis, pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma, cataract, glaucoma, hepatitis B, urinary incontinence, prostate hypertrophy, cancer, osteoporosis, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, or metabolic syndrome. Cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination for dementia screening in 2012, and depression was assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale in 2012 and 2014. In 2015, a structured clinical interview for Axis I psychiatric disorders was administered to 235 people, and sleep disturbance was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The perceived stress scale and the State-trait Anger Expression Inventory were also administered. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict sleep disturbance by gender, age, education, depression score, number of coexisting diseases in 2012 and 2014, current anger score, and perceived stress score. RESULTS: Twenty-seven percent of the participants had sleep disturbances. Logistic regression analysis showed that the number of medical diseases three years ago, the depression score one year ago, and the current perceived stress significantly predicted sleep disturbances. CONCLUSION: Comorbid medical disease three years previous and depressive symptoms evaluated one year previous were predictive of current sleep disturbances. Further studies are needed to determine whether treatment of medical disease and depressive symptoms can improve sleep disturbances.
Aged* ; Aging ; Anger ; Angina Pectoris ; Arthritis ; Asthma ; Cataract ; Cognition ; Cohort Studies ; Comorbidity ; Dementia ; Depression ; Education ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Glaucoma ; Hepatitis B ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Hypertension ; Hypertrophy ; Korea ; Logistic Models ; Mass Screening ; Myocardial Infarction ; Osteoporosis ; Prevalence ; Prostate ; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders ; Stroke ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; Urinary Incontinence

As a solution about many problems of pharmacotherapy for Korean patients with major psychiatric disorders, Korean Medication Algorithm Project for Major Psychiatric Disorders (KMAP) was launched. Recently, a medication algorithm for schizophrenic patients was developed and distributed. This review article showed the designs, processes and methods for developing this algorithm. Also we compared the development of Korean algorithm for schizophrenics with other foreign representative algorithms or clinical practice guidelines. We hope that this review elicit the productive criticism about the rigour, the system of development and the objectivity of content. The limitations and problems of Korean algorithm are also discussed in this review.
Drug Therapy ; Hope ; Humans ; Schizophrenia

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to find out the psychological changes associated with internet addiction between before and after the military drill among the young male army recruits. METHODS: All 1091 participants were army recruits aged from 19 to 22 years who participated in the 5-week military drill. They were assessed with some self-reported questionnaires [Sociodemographic questionnaires, Young's Internet Addiction Scale (IAS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS), the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self-Rated Scale (ASRS)]. They were divided into two groups, One is the internet addiction tendency group and the other is non-addiction group according to the IAS score. And the severity of the internet addiction tendency, depression, anxiety and impulsiveness were evaluated by the IAS, the STAI, the BDI, the BIS, the ASRS before and after military drill. RESULTS: The result of the paired t-test shows that the IAS, the STAI, the BDI, the BIS, the ASRS scores decreased after military drill in both non-addiction group and internet addiction tendency group. The result of the repeated measures ANOVA shows that there is an interaction effect between the changes of ASRS-hyperactivity (F = 23.437, p < 0.001), ASRS-impulsiveness (F = 4.896, p = 0.027), BIS-total (F = 4.057, p = 0.044), BIS-motor impulsiveness (F = 13.609, p < 0.001) scores and groups. The result of the generalized estimating equation shows that internet addiction tendency is associated with ASRS-inattention (beta = 0.075, p < 0.001), ASRS-hyperactivity (beta = 0.092, p = 0.002), STAI-trait anxiety (beta = 0.046, p < 0.001), BIS-motor impulsiveness (beta = 0.119, p = 0.028). CONCLUSIONS: The results show that psychopathologies such as internet addiction tendency, depression, anxiety, impulsiveness may improve after military drill regardless of the groups. Internet addiction tendency may be related to the ASRS-inattention, ASRS-hyperactivity, STAI-trait anxiety, motor-impulsiveness. So these findings may be considered in the treatment of internet addiction in terms of the impulsiveness control.
Anxiety ; Depression ; Humans ; Internet* ; Male* ; Military Personnel

Background: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exerts cytotoxic effects on brain cells, especially on those belonging to the oligodendrocyte lineage, in preterm infants. The susceptibility of oligodendrocyte lineage cells to LPS-induced inflammation is dependent on the developmental stage. This study aimed to investigate the effect of LPS on oligodendrocyte lineage cells at different developmental stages in a microglial cell and oligodendrocyte coculture model. Methods: The primary cultures of oligodendrocytes and microglia cells were prepared from the forebrains of 2-day-old Sprague–Dawley rats. The oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) co-cultured with microglial cells were treated with 0 (control), 0.01, 0.1, and 1 µg/mL LPS at the D3 stage to determine the dose of LPS that impairs oligodendrocyte differentiation. The co-culture was treated with 0.01 µg/mL LPS, which was the lowest dose that did not impair oligodendrocyte differentiation, at the developmental stages D1 (early LPS group), D3 (late LPS group), or D1 and D3 (double LPS group). On day 7 of differentiation, oligodendrocytes were subjected to neural glial antigen 2 (NG2) and myelin basic protein (MBP) immunostaining to examine the number of OPCs and mature oligodendrocytes, respectively. Results: LPS dose-dependently decreased the proportion of mature oligodendrocytes (MBP+ cells) relative to the total number of cells. The number of MBP+ cells in the early LPS group was significantly lower than that in the late LPS group. Compared with those in the control group, the MBP+ cell numbers were significantly lower and the NG2+ cell numbers were significantly higher in the double LPS group, which exhibited impaired oligodendrocyte lineage cell development, on day 7 of differentiation. Conclusion Repetitive LPS stimulation during development significantly inhibited brain cell development by impairing oligodendrocyte differentiation. In contrast, brain cell development was not affected in the late LPS group. These findings suggest that inflammation at the early developmental stage of oligodendrocytes increases the susceptibility of the preterm brain to inflammation-induced injury.