Sunao Matsubayashi

Datos Biográficos

ID9007738
NOMBRESunao Matsubayashi
NOMBRESSunao
APELLIDOMatsubayashi
FIRMAMATSUBAYASHI S
AFILIACIONESFukuoka Tokushukai Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-0896-2816
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1988
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The impact of the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic on the practice of psychosomatic medicine in Japan

    Open AccessYukari Yamanaka, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi et al.ARTICLEBioPsychoSocial Medicine2025

    BACKGROUND: The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the clinical care and the mental health of patients in psychosomatic medicine. Between late 2021 and early 2022, the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (JSPM) and the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine (JSPIM) conducted a nationwide physician survey to assess these effects. The survey identified difficulties in outpatient and inpatient care, increased …

  • A case of central adrenocortical insufficiency with alexithymia and alexisomia

    Open AccessMakoto Yamashita, Sunao MatsubayashiARTICLEActa Psychologica2023

    The patient was a 27-year-old woman. Following physical examination for unconscious hypoglycemia, the patient was diagnosed with central adrenocortical insufficiency. She also had alexithymia and alexisomia. Alexisomia is the inability to recognize or describe bodily sensations. Alexithymia is the difficulty of expressing one's feelings adequately. Alexisomia can be described as impaired interoceptive awareness. She had been maltreated and emotio…

  • A nationwide questionnaire survey of physicians regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on patients and treatment system of psychosomatic medicine

    Open AccessYukari Yamanaka, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi et al.ARTICLEBioPsychoSocial Medicine2023

    BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the treatment system of medical institutions across the world. Studies of the populations and patients have reported mental health problems caused by the pandemic. However, there are few large-scale studies that have examined the effects of the COVID-19 on diseases from the perspective of psychosomatic medicine. The purpose of this study was to examine changes made to the p…

  • The longitudinal BMI pattern and body composition of patients with anorexia nervosa who require urgent hospitalization

    Open AccessKeisuke Kawai, Sakino Yamashita et al.ARTICLEBioPsychoSocial Medicine2011

    BACKGROUND: The prevention of serious physical complications in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients is important. The purpose of this study is to clarify which physical and social factors are related to the necessity for urgent hospitalization of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients in a long-term starvation state. We hypothesized that the change of longitudinal BMI, body composition and social background would be useful as an index of the necessity for urg…

  • Relation between psychosocial variables and the glycemic control of patients with type 2 diabetes

    Open AccessTakehiro Nozaki, Chihiro Morita et al.ARTICLEBioPsychoSocial Medicine2009

    BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional and prospective study used a variety of psychological inventories to evaluate the relationship between psychosocial factors and the glycemic control of patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: Participants were 304 patients with type 2 diabetes who were treated as outpatients at diabetes clinics. All participants were assessed for HbA1c and completed the following self-report psychological inventories: 1) Diabetes …

  • Anorexia nervosa with elevated serum TSH

    Sunao Matsubayashi, H Tamai et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1988

    Low or normal serum TSH concentration is common during fasting and in patients with anorexia nervosa. We report here four patients with anorexia nervosa who had elevated serum TSH, low T3 and low free T4 levels when the initial diagnosis was made. Also, an appearance of TSH peak in response to TRH was delayed, but T3 responsiveness to TRH was normal. All patients were clinically euthyroid with negative serum thyroid autoantibodies and without goi…

  • Pancreatic abnormalities in patients with eating disorders

    Nobuyuki Kobayashi, H Tamai et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1988

    In patients with eating disorders, we evaluated pancreatic abnormalities using serum elastase 1 measurement by RIA and the 50 g oral glucose tolerance test (50 g OGTT). Twenty-one patients had anorexia nervosa (AN) with bulimia and vomiting (AN-B group), 30 had AN without bulimia or vomiting (AN-R group), and 25 had bulimia with normal body weight (B group). The serum elastase 1 level was determined on admission and repeated after body weight gai…