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The activities of the Tokyo Center
Author(s) -
MATSUSHIMA E.,
KOJIMA T.,
ODAYASHI S.,
OHTA K.,
ANDO K.,
TORU M.,
SHIMAZONO Y.,
TAKEBAYASHI H.,
TAKAHASHI S.,
XIA ML.,
OHKURA T.,
YOSHINO M.,
OKUBO Y.,
MATSUURA M.,
ANDO H.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb03265.x
Subject(s) - beijing , psychosocial , psychology , population , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , center (category theory) , exploratory research , psychiatry , china , medicine , geography , environmental health , sociology , chemistry , archaeology , crystallography , anthropology
Abstract The main World Health Organization (WHO) activities of the Tokyo Center are as follows: (1) It performed the research project entitled ‘A Bio‐Psycho‐Social Study on Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems’ in cooperation with the Beijing and Seoul Centers from 1985 to 1987. These results suggested that the deviant behavior of children in the general population had no biological background, but presumably stemmed from psychosocial disadvantages. (2) It has participated in a field trial for the proposed draft for chapter V of the ICD‐10 as the Field Trial Coordinating Center in Japan since 1986 and the first Japanese edition of the ICD‐10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines were published in 1993. (3) It proposed the collaborative project exploratory eye movements in patients with schizophrenia in 1989 and has promoted the project with the cooperation of six centers that included Beijing, Casablanca, Montreal, Munich, Prague and Sapporo. The findings of the present project indicated that exploratory eye movements may be specific to schizophrenia and can be practically used to discriminate schizophrenia without significantly depending on language.