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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
Research from our Anxiety Disorder Clinic and affiliated groups:

Chen, J., Tsuchiya, M., Kawakami, N. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Non-fearful vs fearful panic attacks: A general population study from the National Comorbidity Survey. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Nakano, Y., Lee, K., Noda, Y., Ogawa, S., Kinoshita, Y., Funayama, T., Watanabe, N., Chen, J., Noguchi, Y. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Cognitive-behavior therapy for Japanese patients with panic disorder: acute phase and one-year follow-up results. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Faravelli, C., Furukawa, T. A. & Truglia, E. (in press) Panic disorder. In DSM-V Stress-Induced and Fear Circuitry Disorders Workgroup Conference. Washington, D.C.: APPI.

Kinoshita, Y., Chen, J., Rapee, R. M., Bogels, S., Schneier, F. R., Choy, Y., Kwon, J. H., Liu, X., Schramm, E., Chavira, D. A., Nakano, Y., Watanabe, N., Ietzugu, T., Ogawa, S., Emmelkamp, P., Zhang, J., Kingdon, D., Nagata, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (2008) Cross-cultural study of conviction subtype Taijin Kyofu: proposal and reliability of Nagoya-Osaka diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196, 307-313.

Chen, J., Nakano, Y., Ietzugu, T., Ogawa, S., Funayama, T., Watanabe, N., Noda, Y. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Group cognitive behavior therapy for Japanese patients with social anxiety disorder: preliminary outcomes and their predictors. BMC Psychiatry, 7, 69.

Furukawa, T. A., Watanabe, N., Omori, I. M. & Churchill, R. (in press) Can pill placebo augment cognitive-behavior therapy for panic disorder? BMC Psychiatry, 7, 73.

Noda, Y., Nakano, Y., Ogawa, S., Lee, K., Funayama, T., Kinoshita, Y., Watanabe, N., Chen, J., Noguchi, Y., Kataoka, M., Suzuki, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Sensitization of catastrophic cognition in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder. BMC Psychiatry, 7, 70.

Ietsugu, T., Sukigara, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Evaluation of diagnostic criteria for panic attack using item response theory: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey in USA. Journal of Affective Disorders, 104, 197-201.

Martin, J. L., Sainz-Pardo, M., Furukawa, T. A., Martin-Sanchez, E., Seoane, T. & Galan, C. (2007) Review: Benzodiazepines in generalized anxiety disorder: heterogeneity of outcomes based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 21, 774-782.

Omori, I. M., Murata, Y., Yamanishi, T., Nakaaki, S., Akechi, T., Mikuni, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) The differential impact of executive attention dysfunction on episodic memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients with checking symptoms vs. those with washing symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 41, 776-784.

Watanabe, N., Churchill, R. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Combination of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines versus either therapy alone for panic disorder: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 7, 18.

Furukawa, T. A., Watanabe, N. & Churchill, R. (2006) Psychotherapy plus antidepressant for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 305-312.

Lee, K., Noda, Y., Nakano, Y., Ogawa, S., Kinoshita, K., Funayama, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (2006) Interoceptive hypersensitivity and interoceptive exposure in patients with panic disorder: specificity and effectiveness. BMC Psychiatry, 6, 32.

Eguchi, M., Noda, Y., Nakano, Y., Kanai, T., Yamamoto, I., Watanabe, N., Lee, K., Ogawa, S., Ietsugu, T., Sasaki, M., Chen, J. & Furukawa, T. A. (2005) Quality of life and social role functioning in Japanese patients with panic disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193, 686-689.

Sakurai, A., Nagata, T., Harai, H., Yamada, H., Mohri, I., Nakano, Y., Noda, Y., Ogawa, S., Lee, K. & Furukawa, T. A. (2005) Is "relationship fear" unique to Japan? Symptom factors and patient clusters of social anxiety disorder among the Japanese clinical population. Journal of Affective Disorders 87, 131-137.

Yamamoto, I., Nakano, Y., Watanabe, N., Noda, Y., Furukawa, T. A., Kanai, T., Takashio, O., Koda, R., Otsubo, T. & Kamijima, K. (2004). Cross-cultural evaluation of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale in Japan. Depression & Anxiety 20, 17-22.

Furukawa, T., Watanabe, N. & Churchill, R. (2004). Psychotherapy plus antidepressant for panic disorder: A Cochrane systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders 78 Supplement 1, S109-S110.

Furukawa, T. A. (2003) Effectiveness: the treatment of panic disorder in the real world. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 16, 45-48.

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Research projects in progress:

We are currently establishing the Japanese versions of PDSS, FQ, MI, ACQ and BSQ.

We are running a medium-term (up to 1 year) follow-up study of patients who participated in group CBT for panic disorder with agoraphobia.

An imaging study of OCD undergoing ERP is underway.





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