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List of works by Takahiro A Kato

A 39-Year-Old "Adultolescent": Understanding Social Withdrawal in Japan.

scientific article published on February 2016

A patient with Alzheimer's disease complicated by elderly-onset Cushing's syndrome who had undergone surgical treatment for adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia.

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Abnormal behaviours during pramipexole treatment for Cotard's syndrome: a case report.

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Antidepressant effect of the translocator protein antagonist ONO-2952 on mouse behaviors under chronic social defeat stress

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Antidepressants inhibit interferon-gamma-induced microglial production of IL-6 and nitric oxide.

scientific article published on 30 March 2007

Are Japan's hikikomori and depression in young people spreading abroad?

scientific article published on September 17, 2011

Aripiprazole inhibits polyI:C-induced microglial activation possibly via TRPM7.

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Aripiprazole inhibits superoxide generation from phorbol-myristate-acetate (PMA)-stimulated microglia in vitro: implication for antioxidative psychotropic actions via microglia.

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Attitude of young psychiatrists toward coercive measures in psychiatry: a case vignette study in Japan.

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

Attitudes of early-career psychiatrists in Japan toward child and adolescent psychiatry and their career decision.

scientific article published on February 2010

Autism Spectrum Conditions in Hikikomori: A Pilot Case-Control Study

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Blood biomarkers of Hikikomori, a severe social withdrawal syndrome.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Boundless syndromes in modern society: An interconnected world producing novel psychopathology in the 21st century

scientific article published in January 2016

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) induces sustained intracellular Ca2+ elevation through the up-regulation of surface transient receptor potential 3 (TRPC3) channels in rodent microglia

scientific article published on 8 May 2014

Can Pokémon GO rescue shut-ins (hikikomori) from their isolated world?

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Comparison of treatment patterns in schizophrenia between China and Japan (2001-2009).

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Cuprizone-treated mice, a possible model of schizophrenia, highlighting the simultaneous abnormalities of GABA, serine and glycine in hippocampus

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Cytokines and schizophrenia: Microglia hypothesis of schizophrenia.

scientific article published on June 2009

Development and validation of the 22-item Tarumi's Modern-Type Depression Trait Scale: Avoidance of Social Roles, Complaint, and Low Self-Esteem (TACS-22)

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Development and validation of the 25-item Hikikomori Questionnaire (HQ-25)

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Development of 2-hour suicide intervention program among medical residents: first pilot trial.

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Development of MHFA-based 2-h educational program for early intervention in depression among office workers: A single-arm pilot trial

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Development of a 2-h suicide prevention program for medical staff including nurses and medical residents: A two-center pilot trial

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Differences in the preferred antipsychotics for acute schizophrenia among young psychiatrists in two regions of Japan

scientific article published on 31 May 2010

Different SPECT findings before and after Capgras' syndrome in interictal psychosis.

scientific article published on 24 May 2006

Direct induction of ramified microglia-like cells from human monocytes: dynamic microglial dysfunction in Nasu-Hakola disease

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Does LINE addiction exist? Potential concerns about Japan's most popular form of social media on smartphones

scientific article published on 27 May 2018

Does hikikomori (severe social withdrawal) exist among young people in urban areas of China?

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Does minocycline, an antibiotic with inhibitory effects on microglial activation, sharpen a sense of trust in social interaction?

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Does the 'hikikomori' syndrome of social withdrawal exist outside Japan? A preliminary international investigation

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Donepezil suppresses intracellular Ca2+ mobilization through the PI3K pathway in rodent microglia

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Editorial: Minding Glial Cells in the Novel Understandings of Mental Illness.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Effect of Excessive Coffee Consumption on the Clinical Course of a Patient With Bipolar Disorder: A Case Report and Literature Review

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Effect of yokukansan on the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Effectiveness of brief suicide management training programme for medical residents in Japan: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Effectiveness of suicide prevention gatekeeper-training for university administrative staff in Japan.

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Fibromyalgia and microglial TNF-α: Translational research using human blood induced microglia-like cells.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Forced social isolation due to COVID-19 and consequent mental health problems: lessons from hikikomori

scientific article published on 12 July 2020

Forskolin rapidly enhances neuron-like morphological change of directly induced-neuronal cells from neurofibromatosis type 1 patients

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Harnessing Social Media to Explore Youth Social Withdrawal in Three Major Cities in China: Cross-Sectional Web Survey.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Hikikomori as a possible clinical term in psychiatry: a questionnaire survey

scientific article published on October 15, 2012

Hikikomori: experience in Japan and international relevance.

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Hikikomori : Multidimensional understanding, assessment, and future international perspectives

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Identification of the hikikomori syndrome of social withdrawal: Psychosocial features and treatment preferences in four countries

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Impact of biopsychosocial factors on psychiatric training in Japan and overseas: Are psychiatrists oriented to mind, brain, or sociocultural issues?

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Improvement Of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction And White Matter Integrity By rTMS In Treatment-Resistant Depression

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

In Vitro Modeling of the Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Using Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with Copy Number Variations of PCDH15 and RELN

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Inhibitory effects of aripiprazole on interferon-gamma-induced microglial activation via intracellular Ca2+ regulation in vitro.

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Interictal psychosis after stroke with forced normalization

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Internet addiction and self-evaluated attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits among Japanese college students

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Introducing directly induced microglia-like (iMG) cells from fresh human monocytes: a novel translational research tool for psychiatric disorders

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Introducing the concept of modern depression in Japan; an international case vignette survey

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Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is a Possible Blood Biomarker of Schizoid Personality Traits among Females

scientific article published in 2022

MK-801 treatment affects glycolysis in oligodendrocytes more than in astrocytes and neuronal cells: insights for schizophrenia

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Mania occurring during systemic lupus erythematosus relapse and its amelioration on clinical and neuroimaging follow-up.

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Microglia-derived neuregulin expression in psychiatric disorders.

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Microglial CD206 Gene Has Potential as a State Marker of Bipolar Disorder

scientific article published on January 2016

Microglial intracellular Ca(2+) signaling as a target of antipsychotic actions for the treatment of schizophrenia

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Minocycline modulates human social decision-making: possible impact of microglia on personality-oriented social behaviors

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Minocycline, a microglial inhibitor, diminishes terminal patients' delirium?

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

Modern-Type Depression as an "Adjustment" Disorder in Japan: The Intersection of Collectivistic Society Encountering an Individualistic Performance-Based System

scientific article published in November 2017

Multidimensional anatomy of 'modern type depression' in Japan: A proposal for a different diagnostic approach to depression beyond the DSM-5

scientific article published on 09 September 2015

Nationwide survey of work environment, work-life balance and burnout among psychiatrists in Japan

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Network analysis of the depressive symptom profiles in Asian patients with depressive disorders: Findings from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antidepressants (REAP-AD)

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Neurocognitive Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review.

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Neuroinflammation in schizophrenia especially focused on the role of microglia

scientific article published on December 13, 2011

Neuron-glia interaction as a possible glue to translate the mind-brain gap: a novel multi-dimensional approach toward psychology and psychiatry

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New game software (Pokémon Go) may help youth with severe social withdrawal, hikikomori.

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Personality traits of female vocational school students in Japan with smartphone addiction with comorbid modern‐type depression traits

scientific article published in 2022

Phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine-containing liposomes inhibit amyloid beta and interferon-gamma-induced microglial activation.

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Plasma Metabolites Predict Severity of Depression and Suicidal Ideation in Psychiatric Patients-A Multicenter Pilot Analysis

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Possible Role of BDNF-Induced Microglial Intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> Elevation in the Pathophysiology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Pretreatment of aripiprazole and minocycline, but not haloperidol, suppresses oligodendrocyte damage from interferon-γ-stimulated microglia in co-culture model

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Prevalence rate of Internet addiction among Japanese college students: Two cross-sectional studies and reconsideration of cut-off points of Young's Internet Addiction Test in Japan

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Progressive brain atrophy and cognitive decline along with multiple episodes of delirium

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Psychopathology associated with social withdrawal: Idiopathic and comorbid presentations.

scientific article published in May 2015

Relationship between trusting behaviors and psychometrics associated with social network and depression among young generation: a pilot study

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Suicide intervention skills among Japanese medical residents.

scientific article published in November 2013

TNF-α from hippocampal microglia induces working memory deficits by acute stress in mice

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

The prevalence and correlates of severe social withdrawal in Hong Kong.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Tryptophan-kynurenine and lipid related metabolites as blood biomarkers for first-episode drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder: An exploratory pilot case-control study.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Undergraduate medical students' attitudes towards psychiatry: an international cross-sectional survey between India and Japan.

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p66Shc Signaling Mediates Diabetes-Related Cognitive Decline.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018