Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is the official international journal of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology publishing papers in all fields of psychiatry and related neurosciences including methods & tools in psychiatry and clinical neurosciences.

Since 1933, we have played an important role as a global hub of academic exchanges between Eastern and Western psychiatrists. Our mission is to disseminate prominent research which is valuable to the psychiatry field.

PCN actively accepts international collaborative research paper submissions.

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Neuropsychiatric symptoms cluster and fluctuate over time in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Christopher B. Morrow MD, MHS, Vidyulata Kamath PhD, Bradford C. Dickerson MD, Mark Eldaief MD, Neguine Rezaii MD, Bonnie Wong PhD, Scott McGinnis MD, Ryan Darby MD, Adam M. Staffaroni PhD, Maria I. Lapid MD, Belen Pascual PhD, Julio C. Rojas MD, PhD, Joseph C. Masdeu MD, PhD, Kyrana Tsapkini PhD, Edward D. Huey MD, Daniel W. Fisher MD, PhD, Alexander Pantelyat MD, Akshata Balaji BS, Eric Sah BS, Irene Litvan MD, MPhil, Katya Rascovsky PhD, Nupur Ghoshal MD, PhD, Kimiko Domoto-Reilly MD, MS, John Kornak PhD, Chiadi U. Onyike MD, MHS, the ALLFTD Consortium, 
  •  13 March 2025
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Atypical tactile preferences in autism spectrum disorder: Reduced pleasantness responses to soft objects resembling human body parts

Kai Makita PhD, Ryo Kitada PhD, Takuya Makino MA, Nodoka Sakakihara BA, Ayaka Fukuoka MD, Hirotaka Kosaka MD, PhD, 
  •  12 March 2025
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Epidemiology of Hikikomori: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 19 studies

Wei Zhang PhD, Meng-Yi Chen PhD, Yuan Feng MD, Zhaohui Su PhD, Teris Cheung PhD, Todd Jackson PhD, Qinge Zhang MD, Yu-Tao Xiang MD, PhD, 
  •  27 February 2025
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Brain iron load and neuroaxonal vulnerability in adult attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

Jatta Berberat PhD, Sonja M Kagerer MD, Claudia Späni MD, Jun Hua PhD, Francesco Bavato MD, Philipp Gruber MD, Peter CM van Zijl PhD, Nader Perroud MD, Xu Li PhD, Philipp Stämpfli PhD, Erich Seifritz MD, Karl-Olof Lövblad MD, Boris B Quednow PhD, Paul G Unschuld MD, 
  •  27 February 2025
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Predicting social anxiety disorder based on communication logs and social network data from a massively multiplayer online game: Using a graph neural network

Kenji Yokotani PhD, Masanori Takano PhD, Nobuhito Abe PhD, Takahiro A. Kato PhD, MD, 
  •  25 February 2025
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Public responses to the novel 2019 coronavirus (2019‐nCoV) in Japan: Mental health consequences and target populations

Jun Shigemura MD, PhD, Robert J. Ursano MD, Joshua C. Morganstein MD, Mie Kurosawa MD, PhD, David M. Benedek MD, 
  •  281-282
  •  8 February 2020
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Screening performance of K6/K10 and other screening instruments for mood and anxiety disorders in Japan

Keiko Sakurai MPH, Akihiro Nishi MD, MPH, Kyoko Kondo MD, PhD, Kosuke Yanagida MD, Norito Kawakami MD, DMSc, 
  •  434-441
  •  18 August 2011
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiological studies of Internet gaming disorder: A systematic review of the literature

Satoko Mihara BA, Susumu Higuchi MD, PhD, 
  •  425-444
  •  24 April 2017
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Inflammation and post‐traumatic stress disorder

Hiroaki Hori MD, PhD, Yoshiharu Kim MD, PhD, 
  •  143-153
  •  17 January 2019
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Psychometric properties of the 10‐item Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale in Chinese earthquake victims

Li Wang PhD, Zhanbiao Shi PhD, Yuqing Zhang PhD, Zhen Zhang PhD, 
  •  499-504
  •  28 September 2010
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