| MESSAGE |
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The Role of PSYCHOGERIATRICS
Masaaki Matsushita, President
of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society |
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On the Occasion of the Inauguration of
PSYCHOGERIATRICS, the Journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society
Edmond Chiu, President
of the International Psychogeriatric Association |
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On the Publication of the English Journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society
| Masatoshi Takeda, Editor-in-Chief |
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Message to PSYCHOGERIATRICS
| Mitsumoto Sato, President of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology |
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Celebrating the Inaugural Issue of PSYCHOGERIATRICS
| Shunsaku Hirai, President of the Japanese Society of Dementia Research |
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| EDITORIAL |
Mission of Japanese Psychogeriatric Society towards the 21st Century
| Akira Homma, Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology |
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| REVIEW |
Geriatric
Neuropsychopharmacology: Unmet Needs
| Jeffrey L. Cummings (Department of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine) and Vorapun Senanarong |
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Vascular Cognitive Impairment
| Timo Erkinjuntti (University of Helsinki) and Kenneth Rockwood |
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Neuronal Ca2+ Channels and Nicotinic ACh Receptors as Functional Targets of the Nootropic Nefiracetam
| Mitsunobu Yoshii (Department of Neurophysiology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry), Shigeo Watabe, Yoshiya L. Murashima, Toshihide Nukada, Tadashi Shiotani, and Tomoyuki Nishizaki |
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ORIGINAL
ARTICLE |
Effect of Aging on Gene Expression of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 and Glutamate Transporter-1 in the Prefrontal Cortex of
Schizophrenics
| Hideho Shimada (Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University School of Medicine), Tohru Ohnuma, Piers C. Emson, and Heii Arai |
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Basic and Clinical Studies on the Measurement of β-amyloid(1-42) in Cerebrospinal Fluid as a Diagnostic Marker for Alzheimer，s Disease and Related Disorders: Multi Center Study in Japan
| Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine), Toshihisa Tanaka, Hiroyuki Arai, Hidetada Sasaki, Mikio Shoji, Koichi Okamoto, Katsuya Urakami, Kenji Nakashima, Takeyuki Matsubayashi, Mitsunori Sugita, and Hiroshi Yoshida |
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Inter-peak Latency of Auditory Event-related Potentials (P300) in Cases of Aged Schizophrenia and Alzheimer-type Dementia
| Noriaki Sumi (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases), Kazuyoshi Harada, Osamu Fujimoto, Satoki Taguchi, Yoshitaka Ohta, Hisashige Nan-no, Takashi Hanatani, and Masatoshi Takeda |
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Reliability of a Rating Scale to Assess Post-stroke Psychiatric Symptoms
| Tadashi Kusunoki (Japanese Society for Pharmacoepidemiology), Tomokazu Inomata, Akira Homma, and Shunsaku Hirai |
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Pacing Rhythms of “Wanderers” with Dementia.
| Koji Hori (National Shimofusa Hospital), Toshiya Inada, Itaru Tominaga, Tatsuro Oda, Hiroshi Teramoto, and Haruo Kashima |
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