Cognitive-Behavior Therapy & other psycho-social interventions

• Watanabe N, Furukawa TA, Chen J, Kinoshita Y, Nakano Y, Ogawa S, Funayama T, Ietsugu T, Noda Y (2010) Change in quality of life and their predictors in the long-term follow-up after group cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: a prospective cohort study. BMC Psychiatry. 10(1):81.
• Watanabe N, Furukawa TA, Shimodera S, Morokuma I, Katsuki F, Fujita H, Sasaki M, Kawamura C & Perlis ML (in press) Brief behavioral therapy for refractory insomnia in residual depression: Assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
• Ogawa S, Furukawa TA, Nakano Y, Funayama T, Watanabe N, Noguchi Y & Sasaki M (in press) Interoceptive hypersensitivity as prognostic factor among patients with panic disorder who have received cognitive behavioral therapy. Journal of Beahvior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
  
• Chen J, Furukawa TA, Nakano Y, Ietsugu T, Ogawa S, Funayama T, Watanabe N, Noda Y & Rapee RM (in press) Video feedback with peer ratings in naturalistic anxiety-provoking situations for social anxiety disorder: preliminary report. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
• Yamanishi T, Nakaaki S, Omori I, Hashimoto N, Shinagawa Y, Hongo J, Horikoshi M, Tohyama J, Soma T, Iidaka T, Akechi T & Furukawa TA (in press) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow in responders versus nonresponders to behavior therapy among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging.
• Furukawa TA, Chen J, Watanabe N, Nakano Y, Ietsugu T, Ogawa S, Funayama T & Noda Y (2009) Videotaped experiments to drop safety behaviors and self-focused attention for patients with social anxiety disorder: Do they change subjective and objective evaluations of anxiety and performance? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 202-210.
• Nakano Y, Lee K, Noda Y, Ogawa S, Kinoshita Y, Funayama T, Watanabe N, Chen J, Noguchi Y & Furukawa TA (2008) Cognitive-behavior therapy for Japanese patients with panic disorder: acute phase and one-year follow-up results. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 62, 313-321.
• Akechi T, Okuyama T, Onishi J, Morita T & Furukawa TA (2008) Psychotherapy for depression among incurable cancer patients. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CD005537.
• Akechi T, Hirai K, Motooka H, Shiozaki M, Chen J, Momino K, Okuyama T & Furukawa TA (2008) Problem-solving therapy for psychological distress in Japanese cancer patients: preliminary clinical experience from psychiatric consultations. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, 38, 867-870.
• Watanabe N, Hunot V, Omori IM, Churchill R & Furukawa TA (2007) Psychotherapy for depression among children and adolescents: a systematic review. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 116, 84-95.
• Chen J, Nakano Y, Ietzugu T, Ogawa S, Funayama T, Watanabe N, Noda Y & Furukawa TA (2007) Group cognitive behavior therapy for Japanese patients with social anxiety disorder: preliminary outcomes and their predictors. BMC Psychiatry, 7, 69.
• Watanabe N, Churchill R & Furukawa TA (2007) Combination of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines versus either therapy alone for panic disorder: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 7, 18.
• Furukawa T, Watanabe N & Churchill R (2007) Combined psychotherapy plus antidepressants for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CD004364.
• Akechi T, Taniguchi K, Suzuki S, Okamura M, Minami H, Okuyama T, Furukawa TA & Uchitomi Y (2007) Multifaceted psychosocial intervention program for breast cancer patients after first recurrence: feasibility study. Psycho-Oncology, 16, 517-524.
• Furukawa TA, Watanabe N & Churchill R (2006) Psychotherapy plus antidepressant for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 305-312. Paper that changed our practices
• Furukawa TA (2001) Psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 2092-2093.
• Ito S, Takeuchi H & Furukawa TA (2001) Cognitive therapy and social functioning in chronic depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 477-478.