Research activities

Department of Psychiatry

Nagoya City University

Medical School

Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya

467-8601 JAPAN

Phone: +81-52-853-8271

FAx: +81-52-852-0837

Selected publications in the last 5 years:

Clinical Epidemiology
Theoretical works in clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-Based Psychiatry [updated March 8, 2008]
General contributions to evidence-based mental health in the areas of diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of psychiatric disorders.

Mood Disorders [updated April 8, 2008]
Research from our Lithium Clinic and affiliated groups.

Anxiety Disorders [updated April 23, 2008]
Research from our Anxiety Disorder Clinic and affiliated groups.

Psycho-oncology and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry [updated April 23, 2008]
Research from our C-L Psychiatry group.
Some specific areas of interest include: psychosocial factors involved in recurrent spontaneous abortions.

Schizophrenia

Neuropsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry [updated February 14, 2008]
Research from our Higher Brain Function Clinic and affiliated groups.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Electroencephalography and Epileptology
Research from our Epilepsy Clinic and affiliated groups.

Social Psychiatry [updated February 5, 2008]
General contributions to studies in psychosocial factors important in psychiatric disorders.
Some specific areas of interest include: social support, coping, etc.

Others [updated April 22, 2008]

According to the University Ranking 2008 (Asahi Newspaper) and the ISI (Thomson Scientific), Nagoya City University was ranked 5th in the mental health research out of all universities/institutions in Japan for the years 2001-2005.

	Name of university/institution	No articles	Index of citation
1	Toyama U	26	150.6
2	Tokyo Medical and Dental U	31	149.3
3	Teikyo U	27	145.8
4	Niigata U	25	124.6
5	Nagoya City University	27	119.8
6	U of Occupational and Environ. Med	27	115.5
7	Kyoto U	125	115.1
8	Keio U	61	113.8
9	Tohoku U	68	108.1
10	Hokkaido U	50	107.7
11	Osaka U	46	107.2
12	Tokyo U	179	106.5
13	Metropolitan U Tokyo	28	105.3
14	Okayama U	36	103.6
15	Chiba U	27	102.9

The index of citation represents the number of citations per article, standardized for each area of science (in this case, psychiatry and psychology), out of all universities/institutions who have published at least 25 articles over 5 years. It therefore shows both quality and quantity of research in mental health within Japan. Please note that the so-called top two universities in Japan, Kyoto and Tokyo Universities, do publish many but they are not as often cited as those published by us. We are the top runner in mental health research in central Japan.

Nagoya City University is indeed one of the best medical schools in Japan in terms of both health sciences and life sciences research, according to the University Ranking 2008 and Scopus (Elsevier). The number of citations per article in health sciences (left column) and in life sciences (right column) places us at the 3rd and the 2nd, respectively, of all the research institutions in Japan, proudly in front of the traditional big state-protected universities such as Tokyo, Kyoto or other Universities.

Health sciences			Life sciences
	Name of university	Cited		Name of university	Cited
1	Tokyo U	5.676	1	Osaka U	5.231
2	Osaka U	3.907	2	Nagoya City University	4.760
3	Nagoya City University	3.514	3	Kyoto U	4.498
4	Kyoto U	3.507	4	Tokyo M&D U	4.360
5	Nagoya U	2.891	5	Yokohama City U	4.218
6	Tohoku U	2.865	6	Tokyo U	4.164
7	Chiba U	2.790	7	Kumamoto U	4.008
8	Kyushu U	2.689	8	Nagoya U	3.972
9	Tsukuba U	2.637	9	Tokyo I of Technology	3.970
10	Hokkaido U	2.544	10	Kurume U	3.726

NOTABLES IN RESEARCH

Meta-analyses in mood and anxiety disorders

The Group for Longitudinal Affective Disorders Study (GLADS) is nation-wide, multi-site naturalistic follow-up study.