Reliability and validity of the new Tanaka B Intelligence Scale scores: a group intelligence test.

Objective: The present study evaluated the reliability and concurrent validity of the new Tanaka B Intelligence Scale, which is an intelligence test that can be administered on groups within a short period of time.

Methods: The new Tanaka B Intelligence Scale and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition were administered to 81 subjects (mean age ± SD 15.2 ± 0.

Effect of stamped reply envelopes and timing of newsletter delivery on response rates of mail survey: a randomised controlled trial in a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To examine the effects of stamped reply envelope and the timing of newsletter distribution.

Design: A randomised controlled trial in a prospective cohort study with a 2×2 factorial design of two interventions.

Setting: The Japan Nurses' Health Study (JNHS), a prospective cohort study for women's health.

Efficacy of double vaccination with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccine during pregnancy.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of double vaccination with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccine during pregnancy.

Methods: A study of the 2009 H1N1 vaccine was conducted in 128 pregnant women, who were between 8 and 32 weeks of gestation in October 2009, to monitor the immune response to vaccination and the change in antibody positivity rate and to assess the immune response. Furthermore, the study aimed to assess the changes in these parameters after the first and second vaccination, monitor the maintenance of antibody titers in maternal blood, assess antibody transfer to umbilical cord blood, and evaluate the vaccine.

Coronary artery dilatation in LEOPARD syndrome. A child case and literature review.

LEOPARD syndrome (LS) is a rare inherited disease with multiple somatic abnormalities. LS and Noonan syndrome (NS) share many features, including cardiovascular disorders, and PTPN11 gene mutation is commonly reported in both syndromes. We report a 10-year-old male patient who was diagnosed as LS based on typical phenotypes including multiple lentigines, electrocardiographic abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism and deafness.

[Age distribution of transepithelial water loss in human nasal mucosa].

Background: Dry nose is a common complaint in the elderly. Age distribution of transepithelial water loss of human nasal mucosa (TEWL) value was evaluated in this study.

Methods: Eighty-eight volunteers (50 men and 30 women) ranging from 10 to 75 years old were recruited for this study.

[Usefulness of a new sheet-like apparatus (SD-101) for screening of sleep apnea syndrome].

Polysomnography (PSG) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS). However, PSG is not suitable as a first-line examination for all people suspected as having SAS because PSG requires hospitalization. Therefore, it is hoped that a simple examination can be developed which is available for use in the home.

Estimation of daily mercury intake from seafood in Japanese women: Akita cross-sectional study.

We estimated daily mercury intakes from seafood in 154 mothers residing in several cities and towns in Akita, Japan, to address the relationships between the reference dose (RfD of 0.1 microg/kg body weight per day, derived by US EPA) and daily mercury intakes, combined with hair mercury levels. The frequency and volume of seafood ingested by them were examined using a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with 25 kinds of full-scale pictures including fish and shellfish items.

Clinical features in two cases with musical obsessions who successfully responded to clomipramine.

Clinical features in two cases with musical obsessions are presented to discuss phenomenological and psychopharmacological differences from those in patients with musical hallucinations. The present patients commonly experienced music as an internally generated cognitive product accompanied by full insight into the senselessness of the symptoms. They also attempted to suppress the musical symptoms or to neutralize them with other thoughts.