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Patterns of Delusions and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia : Comparison between the 1990s and the 2000s (조현병 입원 환자의 망상과 환각 : 1990년대와 2000년대의 비교)

  • Jung, Hyun-Jin;Kim, Daeho;Oh, Hyun Young;Park, Yong-Chon
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.80-85
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    • 2013
  • Objectives Research suggests that content of delusion and hallucination in schizophrenia is influenced by culture and social environment. However, few studies investigated chronological change of delusions and hallucinations within a society. To investigate changes in delusions and hallucinations of schizophrenia according to time, we compared contents of symptoms between inpatients with schizophrenia at two different time frames. Methods All admissions to a psychiatric unit of Hanyang University Guri Hospital with discharge diagnoses of schizophrenia at two different five-year time frames (1996-2000 and 2006-2010) were reviewed. Using a checklist, adapted from the Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms, we investigated delusions and hallucinations of 247 patients (104 in the 1990s and 143 in the 2000s). Results Delusions and hallucinations of patients did not differ at two time frames. In women, however, auditory and somato-tactile hallucinations were significantly more frequent in the 1990s (p < 0.05). Conclusions Our findings support the literature emphasizing that content and frequency of hallucination may differ according to cultural environment. We speculate that attitude toward sex and defensiveness toward disclosure of symptoms may have contributed to interval difference.

Four Cases of Late-Onset Schizophrenia (만발성 정신분열증 4례)

  • Park, Jong Deuk;Yoon, Doh Joon
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.295-300
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    • 1995
  • Late-onset schizophrenia(LOS) is a controversial entity. It has been thought that onset of schizophrenia is limited to early adulthood, but many European psychiatrists have reported on the occurrence of schizophrenia in late life. DSM-III restricted the diagnosis of schizophrenia to patients with onset of illness before age 45 years. But, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and ICD-10 recognize no upper limit to the age at onset of schizophrenia. Patients with LOS have more visual, tactile, and olfactory hallucinations. Patients with LOS have more persecutory delusions, premorbid schizoid personality traits, and less affective blunting. The course of illness was favorable in LOS. We present four cases of LOS. Their detailed clinical features are reported hear with brief review.

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A Buddhist Study on the Effect of Forest Healing (산림치유효과의 불교적 고찰)

  • Seo, Byung-Chan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.540-552
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze forest healing from a Buddhist perspective and improve its effect, and the forest has a close relationship with Buddhism than any religion. the Buddha's life is connected to forest and tree, which is caused by the spiritual nature and role of forest. Healing deals with the problem of suffering of the mind, and in Buddhism, it is solved through practice. By understanding the phenomenon of delusions such as thoughts, greed, and bad feelings about sensory control, vhfptmxmhelps to escape from the desire to pursue unnecessary stimuli or external objects, Human beings can get comfort and pleasure through the five senses in the beautiful natural scenery, and find the stability of the mind. This is because when entering the forest, good environments that prevent the 6th consciousness from growing delusions way the operation of the five senses are contained in the forest, This study is a preliminary study that analyzed the effects based on the natural environmental healing factor and Buddhist theory of forests based on previous studies, As a result of examining whether Buddhism can maximize the healing effect of forest healing, it was confirmed that it can contribute to activation along with existing forest healing techniques, The verification of the effectiveness will be left as a follow-up research project through future experimental research, and this study is expected to contribute to the activation of forest healing effect.

Symptoms of the subject in a movie based on Lacan's work on psychosis - Focusing On Lars von Trier's film (라캉의 정신병 연구에 근거한 영화 속 주체의 증상 - 라스 폰 트리에의 <살인마 잭의 집>을 중심으로)

  • HAN JINGZHI
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    • v.16
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    • pp.69-105
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    • 2024
  • The House that Jack Built (2018), a film about how the protagonist Jack is reborn as a "mad artist" with psychotic symptoms during a 12-year killing spree, provides an interesting opportunity to analyze the film in terms of psychoanalysis and religion. Jack, an engineer who suffers from OCD, finds pleasure in the accidental murder of a character and considers killing people as an art form, overcoming his OCD in the process. The question we are interested in is whether the symptoms of OCD are truly overcome by the act of repeated killing. The idea is that Jack's OCD is not overcome by killing, but rather that the symptoms disappear as he moves from neurosis to a stabilized psychotic state. According to the theory of the famous French psychoanalyst Lacan, the hallucinations or delusions that human subjects experience when they lose their realistic stability are a phenomenon that occurs when they are confronted with The Real, which penetrates through the cracks of the symbolic system. Phenomena such as Jack's illusory reality and delusions in the movie are pathological symptoms of the absence of a paternal figure in his life, causing the Name-of-the-Father to fail to take hold. This paper deciphers the psychotic structure of Jack, the protagonist of Lars von Trier's House of Jack, through Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Danshensu Isolated from Prunella vulgaris var. Lilacina Attenuates MK-801-induced Prepulse Inhibition Deficits in Mice (하고초 추출물로부터 분리된 Danshensu의 MK-801으로 유도된 사전자극 억제 손상의 회복에 대한 작용)

  • Hong, Sung In;Park, Se Jin;Lew, Jae Hwan;Ryu, Jong Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2013
  • Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder and characterized by positive symptom (i.e., delusions, hallucinations), negative symptom (i.e., lack of emotion, social withdrawal), and cognitive impairment. Previously, we reported that the ethanolic extract of Prunella vulgaris var. lilacina attenuated the MK-801-induced schizophrenia-like behaviors such as prepulse inhibition (PPI) deficits and cognitive impairment in mice. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether danshensu isolated from P. vulgaris var. lilacina attenuates MK-801-induced sensorimotor gating dysfunction (PPI deficits), hyperlocomotion, and memory impairment in mice. Acute administration of danshensu (1, 3, or 10 mg/kg) significantly ameliorated the MK-801-induced PPI deficits in the acoustic startle response test. We also observed that the impaired recognition memory induced by MK-801 was attenuated by danshensu (1 mg/kg) in the novel object recognition test. However, danshensu failed to reverse the MK-801-induced hyperlocomotion in the open-field test. Collectively, the present results indicate danshensu would be an active agent for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.

A Case Report of Schizophrenia with Acute Cerebral Infarction Treated with Guibi-tang (급성 뇌경색을 동반한 정신분열병 환자의 귀비탕(歸脾湯) 치험1례)

  • Kim, Eui-Chul;Hong, Eun-Gi;Lee, Ju-Il;Park, Young-Chul;Sun, Teh-Cheng;Kwon, Do-Ik;Park, Jun-Ha;Kim, Ju-Young;Song, Il-Heon
    • The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.546-553
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    • 2006
  • Schizophrenia is a disturbance condition that lasts for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of active-phase symptoms(i.e., two [or more] of the following : delusions, hallucinations. disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms) In this study, we report one case of schizophrenia with acute cerebral infarction. The patient has been diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 20 years ago, and after this recent cerebral infarction, all of her schizophrenic symptoms such as auditory hallucination, delirium, depression, insomnia were aggravated. Her schizophrenic symptoms, PANSS and NIHSS total scores were considerably reduced after oriental treatment(Guibi-tang(歸脾湯)), so we report this as a potential treatment.

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The Changes of Neighbor and Family Relation by Joining Communal Childcare Cooperative (공동육아 협동조합에서의 참여를 통한 이웃과 가족 관계의 변화)

  • 류경희;김순옥
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.39 no.11
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    • pp.193-208
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    • 2001
  • The changes of neighbor relation by joining communal childcare cooperative are as follows. Neighbors who are cooperative members are consultant who advise on childcare and communal parents who nurture children in communal local society. They are also consultant on problems of couples because one can reveal difficulties and troubles in the relation with the spouse easily to the neighbors. They admit gradually that their daily life can also be shared with other families. Living with neighbors extend the boundary of family and form a sound family culture. On the other hand, because their relationship is satisfactory, they have no need to form relationship with neighbors who are not cooperative members. They regard neighbors who are not cooperative members as 'peoples with different color from us'. Also they recognize exclusive eyesight from neighbor who are not cooperative members. The changes of family relation by joining communal childcare cooperative are as follows. In the relationship between wife and husband, both husband and wife take equal responsibility of childcare and that husband gets to familiar with household matters. In the relationship between parents and children, equality comes true and parents get to blow wars to be good parents. And they neither attach to their children nor bear expansive delusions on their children.

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Expression Analysis of Schizophrenia Symptoms : Focusing on the Movies and (조현병 증상의 표현 분석 : 영화 <더 보이스>,<블랙 스완>을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Ji-Won
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.510-519
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to examine how delusions and hallucinations are expressed as representative symptoms of schizophrenia in the two films and . We look at how the two films show the appearance and overall image of the schizophrenic patient, the emotional expression of the schizophrenic patient, and how family and colleagues express the perceptions of the schizophrenic patient's symptoms. Finally, we will examine the perception of treatment measures for schizophrenia. Comprehensively, through this process, the schizophrenia symptoms expressed in the two films will have some effect on social perception of schizophrenia and the social implications of therapeutic intervention for schizophrenia recovery.

Case Study on Big Data by use of Artificial Intelligence (인공지능을 활용한 빅데이터 사례분석)

  • Park, Sungbum;Lee, Sangwon;Ahn, Hyunsup;Jung, In-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.211-213
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    • 2013
  • In these days, the delusions of Big Data and apprehension about them are coming into the picture in many business fields. General techniques for preservation, analysis, and utilization of Big Data are falling short of useful techniques for the volume of fast-increasing data. However, there are some assertions that the power of analysis and prediction of Artificial Intelligence would intensify the power of Big Data analysis. This paper studies on business cases to try to graft the Artificial Intelligence technique onto Big Data analysis. We first research on various techniques of Artificial Intelligence and relations between Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. And then, we perform case studies of Big Data with using Artificial Intelligence and propose some roles of Big Data in the future.

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The First Psychiatric Interview and Understanding of Psychodynamics; An Experience of Resident Education (첫 면접(面接)과 환자심리역동(患者心理力動)의 이해(理解) -전공의(專攻醫) 교육(敎育) 경험(經驗)-)

  • Cho, Doo-Young;Rhi, Bou-Yong;Kim, Zoung-Soul;Kim, Yong-Sik;Cho, Maeng-Jae;Lyoo, In-Kyoon
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.12-30
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    • 1997
  • The psychiatric interview is not a random or arbitrary meeting between doctor and patient. It is a systematic attempt to understand the relationship of psychopathology to emotional conflicts in patient, and interviewing is an in rather than a science, a skill that can be acquired but probably not taught. The faculty of the Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, have been providing 12 sessions of seminar on Psychiatric Interview and Psychopathology every year for the first year residents for the past 15 years. The authors presented three cases materials with their understandings of psychopathology and psychodynamics, each of which the authors had performed live interviews for 50 minutes in front of the residents. Those are a young male with conversion disorder whose chief complaints was motor aphasia, a young college girl with paranoid schizophrenia whose chief complaints were persecutory and erotic delusions with auditory hallucination, and a climacteric female in delusional disorder who had a delusion of infidelity. The most frequent questions the residents raised after the presentations were on the significances of the first interview, danger of making the diagnoses with short interviews, and methodology of questionings and not-questionings. In reply the authors discussed the importance of understandings of psychopathology and psychodynamics, the flexibility of the techniques of interviewing, and priority-related matters in which the understanding of psychodynamics proceed to the diagnoses.

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