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Citations
8719
World Ranking
4867
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Toshinori Kitamura is a researcher affiliated with the Kitamura Institute of Mental Health Tokyo in Japan. Their academic work spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, focusing primarily on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pharmacy.

The main research topics explored by Kitamura include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Infant Health and Development, Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Pregnancy and Medication Impact, and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics.

Kitamura has contributed to numerous scientific publications, frequently collaborating with coauthors such as Ayako Hada, Yukiko Ohashi, Yuriko Usui, Mariko Minatani, and Mikiyo Wakamatsu. These collaborations have supported a significant body of work, including studies and analyses related to maternal and infant health.

Frequent publication venues where Kitamura's research appears include:

  • Healthcare
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports
  • Psychology
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Kitamura's recent scientific papers include:

  • "Reasons for Increased Caesarean Section Rate in Vietnam: A Qualitative Study among Vietnamese Mothers and Health Care Professionals" (2020, Healthcare)
  • "Prenatal and Intrapartum Factors Associated With Infant Temperament: A Systematic Review" (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • "The Pregnancy-Unique Quantification of Emesis and Nausea (PUQE-24): Configural, Measurement, and Structural Invariance between Nulliparas and Multiparas and across Two Measurement Time Points" (2021, Healthcare)
  • "The Insomnia Severity Index: Factor Structure and Measurement and Structural Invariance across Perinatal Time Points" (2023, Healthcare)
  • "Tokophobia: Case Reports and Narratives of Ten Japanese Women" (2023, Healthcare)

In addition to journal publications, Kitamura has contributed to books published by Nova Publishers and Book Publisher International, including:

  • Dimensional Assessment of the Mother Baby Organization Project: The Many Facets of Psychological Difficulties among Expectant Women (2024)
  • Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 11 (2020)

Best Publications

  • Minamata disease revisited: an update on the acute and chronic manifestations of methyl mercury poisoning.

    Shigeo Ekino;Mari Susa;Tadashi Ninomiya;Keiko Imamura

  • Multicentre prospective study of perinatal depression in Japan: incidence and correlates of antenatal and postnatal depression.

    T. Kitamura;K. Yoshida;T. Okano;K. Kinoshita

  • Internet and mobile phone text-messaging dependency: Factor structure and correlation with dysphoric mood among Japanese adults

    Xi Lu;Junko Watanabe;Qingbo Liu;Masayo Uji

  • Depression as a potential causal factor in subsequent miscarriage in recurrent spontaneous aborters

    Mayumi Sugiura-Ogasawara;Toshiaki A. Furukawa;Yumi Nakano;Shiro Hori

  • Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Temperament and Character Inventory

    Nobuhiko Kijima;Eriko Tanaka;Nobuko Suzuki;Hina Higuchi

  • Personality traits as risk factors of depression and anxiety among Japanese students.

    Tomomi Matsudaira;Toshinori Kitamura

  • Lectin-like oxidized low density lipoprotein receptor-1 (LOX-1) serves as an endothelial receptor for advanced glycation end products (AGE)

    Tadashi Jono;Akira Miyazaki;Ryoji Nagai;Tatsuya Sawamura

  • One‐year prevalence and incidence of depression among first‐year university students in Japan: A preliminary study

    Atsuko Tomoda;Katsuaki Mori;Mitsuru Kimura;Takuya Takahashi

  • Social Support Questionnaire among psychiatric patients with various diagnoses and normal controls.

    T. A. Furukawa;H. Harai;T. Hirai;T. Kitamura

  • Factor structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Japanese psychiatric outpatient and student populations

    Tomomi Matsudaira;Hiromi Igarashi;Hiroyoshi Kikuchi;Rikihachiro Kano

  • The Impact of Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive Parenting Styles on Children’s Later Mental Health in Japan: Focusing on Parent and Child Gender

    Masayo Uji;Ayuko Sakamoto;Keiichiro Adachi;Toshinori Kitamura

  • Psychosocial study of depression in early pregnancy

    Toshinori Kitamura;Masumi Sugawara;Kensuke Sugawara;Mari Aoki Toda

  • A Validation Study of the Parental Bonding Instrument in a Japanese Population

    Toshinori Kitamura;Tadaharu Suzuki

  • Psychological and social correlates of the onset of affective disorders among pregnant women

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  • Lifetime and 6-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in an urban community in Japan.

    Norito Kawakami;Hiroyuki Shimizu;Takashi Haratani;Noboru Iwata

  • Symptoms of psychoses. A factor-analytic study.

    Toshinori Kitamura;Yuji Okazaki;Akira Fujinawa;Masahiro Yoshino

  • Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) as predictors of depression among Japanese college students

    Mayumi Naito;Nobuhiko Kijima;Toshinori Kitamura

  • Time to recovery of an inception cohort with hitherto untreated unipolar major depressive episodes

    Toshiaki A. Furukawa;Toshinori Kitamura;Kiyohisa Takahashi

  • Early parental separation experiences among patients with bipolar disorder and major depression: a case-control study.

    T.A Furukawa;A Ogura;T Hirai;S Fujihara

  • Public attitudes towards the mentally ill : A cross-cultural study between Bali and Tokyo

    Toshiyuki Kurihara;Motoichiro Kato;Shinji Sakamoto;Robert Reverger

  • Temporal variation of validity of self-rating questionnaires: repeated use of the General Health Questionnaire and Zung's Self-rating Depression Scale among women during antenatal and postnatal periods.

    T. Kitamura;S. Shima;M. Sugawara;M. A. Toda

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshiaki A. Furukawa
Toshiaki A. Furukawa Kyoto University
Yutaka Ono
Yutaka Ono Keio University
C. Robert Cloninger
C. Robert Cloninger Washington University in St. Louis

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