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Daisuke Nishi

Daisuke Nishi

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Psychology

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5684
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Overview

Daisuke Nishi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work spans multiple areas within the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical and social psychology as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their research contributions include publications in prominent journals such as The Lancet Psychiatry, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Industrial Health.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Clinician guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders with nutraceuticals and phytoceuticals: The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) Taskforce, 2022, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers: study protocol for the COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErS (HEROES) study, 2022, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Antenatal psychological intervention for universal prevention of antenatal and postnatal depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Construct validity and test-retest reliability of the World Mental Health Japan version of the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire Short Version: a preliminary study, 2020, Industrial Health

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors. These include:

  • Norito Kawakami
  • Natsu Sasaki
  • Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Kotaro Imamura
  • Hiroki Asaoka

Their work often appears in recurring publication venues, demonstrating consistent contributions in these outlets:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • BMC Psychiatry

Nishi's research principally covers areas within psychology with an emphasis on clinical psychology and social psychology. Other focused subfields include public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in their work comprise:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout

Best Publications

  • Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry.

    Jerome Sarris;Jerome Sarris;Alan C Logan;Tasnime N Akbaraly;Tasnime N Akbaraly;G. Paul Amminger

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries.

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  • Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Resilience Scale and its short version.

    Daisuke Nishi;Ritei Uehara;Maki Kondo;Yutaka Matsuoka

  • Posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress disorder and resilience of motor vehicle accident survivors

    Daisuke Nishi;Yutaka Matsuoka;Yoshiharu Kim

  • International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research consensus position statement: nutritional medicine in modern psychiatry.

    Jerome Sarris;Alan C. Logan;Tasnime N. Akbaraly;G. Paul Amminger

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers: study protocol for the COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErS (HEROES) study

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  • Peritraumatic Distress Inventory as a predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder after a severe motor vehicle accident.

    Diasuke Nishi;Yutaka Matsuoka;Nakajima Yonemoto;Hiroko Noguchi

  • Peritraumatic distress, watching television, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among rescue workers after the Great East Japan earthquake.

    Daisuke Nishi;Yuichi Koido;Naoki Nakaya;Toshimasa Sone

  • Concern over radiation exposure and psychological distress among rescue workers following the Great East Japan Earthquake

    Yutaka Matsuoka;Daisuke Nishi;Naoki Nakaya;Toshimasa Sone

  • Prevalence of mental disorders and mental health service use in Japan.

    Daisuke Nishi;Hanako Ishikawa;Norito Kawakami

  • Optimal cut-off score of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for major depressive episode during pregnancy in Japan

    Kentaro Usuda;Daisuke Nishi;Emi Okazaki;Miyuki Makino

  • Resilience, post-traumatic growth, and work engagement among health care professionals after the Great East Japan Earthquake: A 4-year prospective follow-up study.

    Daisuke Nishi;Yuzuru Kawashima;Hiroko Noguchi;Masato Usuki

  • Incidence and prediction of psychiatric morbidity after a motor vehicle accident in Japan: the Tachikawa Cohort of Motor Vehicle Accident Study

    Yutaka Matsuoka;Daisuke Nishi;Satomi Nakajima;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Secondary traumatic stress and associated factors among Japanese nurses working in hospitals

    Miyuki H Komachi;Kiyoko Kamibeppu;Daisuke Nishi;Yutaka Matsuoka

  • Associations between disaster exposures, peritraumatic distress, and posttraumatic stress responses in Fukushima nuclear plant workers following the 2011 nuclear accident: the Fukushima NEWS Project study.

    Jun Shigemura;Takeshi Tanigawa;Daisuke Nishi;Yutaka Matsuoka

  • Omega-3 fatty acids for secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder after accidental injury: an open-label pilot study.

    Yutaka Matsuoka;Daisuke Nishi;Naohiro Yonemoto;Kei Hamazaki

  • Epidemiology of overdose episodes from the period prior to hospitalization for drug poisoning until discharge in Japan: An exploratory descriptive study using a nationwide claims database.

    Yasuyuki Okumura;Nobuo Sakata;Kunihiko Takahashi;Daisuke Nishi

  • Antenatal psychological intervention for universal prevention of antenatal and postnatal depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Naonori Yasuma;Zui Narita;Natsu Sasaki;Erika Obikane

  • Trends in the prevalence of psychological distress and the use of mental health services from 2007 to 2016 in Japan.

    Daisuke Nishi;Ryoko Susukida;Kentaro Usuda;Ramin Mojtabai

  • The association of personal importance of religion and religious service attendance with suicidal ideation by age group in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

    Daisuke Nishi;Ryoko Susukida;Naoaki Kuroda;Holly C. Wilcox

  • Association between working hours, work engagement, and work productivity in employees: A cross-sectional study of the Japanese Study of Health, Occupation, and Psychosocial Factors Relates Equity

    Emi Okazaki;Daisuke Nishi;Ryoko Susukida;Akiomi Inoue

  • Longitudinal changes in serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in accident survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Yutaka Matsuoka;Daisuke Nishi;Hiroko Noguchi;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Association between regular physical exercise and depressive symptoms mediated through social support and resilience in Japanese company workers: a cross-sectional study

    Eisho Yoshikawa;Daisuke Nishi;Yutaka J. Matsuoka

  • Fish oil for attenuating posttraumatic stress symptoms among rescue workers after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a randomized controlled trial

    Daisuke Nishi;Yuichi Koido;Naoki Nakaya;Toshimasa Sone

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiharu Kim
Yoshiharu Kim National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Viviane Kovess-Masfety
Viviane Kovess-Masfety Université Paris Cité
Ramin Mojtabai
Ramin Mojtabai Johns Hopkins University
Alan E. Kazdin
Alan E. Kazdin Yale University
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard King's College London
Julia J. Rucklidge
Julia J. Rucklidge University of Canterbury
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales

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