Publications by authors named "Reoto Kijima"
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- Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mental health issue that affects motivation and pleasure, but its specific relationship with the reward system in first-episode, drug-naïve patients hasn't been explored thoroughly.
- The study involved 89 MDD patients and 82 healthy controls, investigating how the fronto-striato network (FSN) relates to age and depression scores while finding age's effect on FSN only in healthy individuals.
- Results showed that the FSN is influenced by both age and MDD, indicating a complex interaction, but there was no direct correlation between FSN and severity of depressive symptoms as measured by the Hamilton Rating Scale.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) presents with a variety of physical complications such as hypoglycemia, electrolyte abnormalities, and dehydration associated with starvation, requiring rapid weight gain through nutritional therapy. However, despite nutritional therapy, patients are at risk of many serious medical complications, including hypoglycemia, hypophosphatemia, edema, and liver damage. Starvation has been found to cause hepatocyte injury with mild-to-severe increases in liver enzyme levels, and distinguishing between autophagy and refeeding syndrome is important for treatment strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is an adrenal gland disease, that induces increased secretion of the mineralocorticoid, aldosterone, resulting in symptoms such as hypertension. This study reports a patient with agoraphobia and panic attacks, associated with PA. This patient's psychiatric symptoms improved after treatment with eplerenone, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist.
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