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Yoshiharu Kim is affiliated with the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Psychology, with a primary focus on Clinical Psychology. Their research output includes in-depth exploration of psychological assessment tools, mental health trajectories following disasters and pandemics, and the psychometric evaluation of mental health scales.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21: Development and Validation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 8-Item in Psychiatric Patients and the General Public for Easier Mental Health Measurement in a Post COVID-19 World, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors, 2022, Clinical Psychology Review
  • The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 8-Items Expresses Robust Psychometric Properties as an Ideal Shorter Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 Among Healthy Respondents From Three Continents, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism affects negative memory bias in civilian women with PTSD, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Predictors of Nutritional Status, Depression, Internet Addiction, Facebook Addiction, and Tobacco Smoking Among Women With Eating Disorders in Spain, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry

The scientist works frequently alongside coauthors including Hiroaki Hori, Hiroshi Kunugi, Zui Narita, Mingming Lin, and Madoka Niwa, collaborating on diverse studies within psychiatric and psychological domains.

Yoshiharu Kim publishes extensively in a range of journals with multiple contributions to the following venues:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Their main fields of study and research interests include:

  • Psychology

Within this broad discipline, their work focuses on subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Sociology and Political Science

Research topics extensively covered by Yoshiharu Kim include:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Best Publications

  • RELIABILIGY AND VALIDITY OF THE JAPANESE-LANGUAGE VERSION OF THE IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE-REVISED (IES-R-J): FOUR STUDIES OF DIFFERENT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

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  • Estimation of premorbid IQ in individuals with Alzheimer's disease using Japanese ideographic script (Kanji) compound words: Japanese version of National Adult Reading Test.

    Keiko Matsuoka;Masatake Uno;Kiyoto Kasai;Keiko Koyama

  • Prevalence and determinants of complicated grief in general population

    Daisuke Fujisawa;Mitsunori Miyashita;Satomi Nakajima;Masaya Ito

  • Suppression of Cellular Immunity in Men With a Past History of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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

    Daisuke Nishi;Yutaka Matsuoka;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Brief Measure for Screening Complicated Grief: Reliability and Discriminant Validity

    Masaya Ito;Satomi Nakajima;Daisuke Fujisawa;Mitsunori Miyashita

  • The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21: Development and Validation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 8-Item in Psychiatric Patients and the General Public for Easier Mental Health Measurement in a Post COVID-19 World.

    Amira Mohammed Ali;Abdulmajeed A Alkhamees;Hiroaki Hori;Yoshiharu Kim

  • The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 8-Items Expresses Robust Psychometric Properties as an Ideal Shorter Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 Among Healthy Respondents From Three Continents

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  • Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors.

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  • Lessons learned about psychosocial responses to disaster and mass trauma: an international perspective

    Lennart Reifels;Luca Pietrantoni;Gabriele Prati;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Morphologic alterations in the corpus callosum in abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a preliminary study.

    Noriyuki Kitayama;Marijn Brummer;Lois Hertz;Sinead Quinn

  • 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

  • Sleep Deprivation Facilitates Extinction of Implicit Fear Generalization and Physiological Response to Fear

    Kenichi Kuriyama;Takahiro Soshi;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Structure of orbitofrontal cortex and its longitudinal course in cancer-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Yuko Hakamata;Yutaka Matsuoka;Masatoshi Inagaki;Mitsue Nagamine

  • Insight and clinical correlates in schizophrenia

    Yoshiharu Kim;Kaoru Sakamoto;Toshiko Kamo;Yuu Sakamura

  • Mental health distress and related factors among prefectural public servants seven months after the great East Japan Earthquake.

    Yuriko Suzuki;Maiko Fukasawa;Akiko Obara;Yoshiharu Kim

  • Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Suicidal Thoughts Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Adults 3 Years After the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake

    Yuriko Suzuki;Atsuro Tsutsumi;Maiko Fukasawa;Hiroko Honma

  • Effect of d-cycloserine and valproic acid on the extinction of reinstated fear-conditioned responses and habituation of fear conditioning in healthy humans: a randomized controlled trial

    Kenichi Kuriyama;Motoyasu Honma;Takahiro Soshi;Takeshi Fujii

  • Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety.

    Yuko Hakamata;Shotaro Komi;Yoshiya Moriguchi;Shuhei Izawa

  • 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

  • 24-h activity rhythm and sleep in depressed outpatients

    Hiroaki Hori;Norie Koga;Shinsuke Hidese;Anna Nagashima

  • Schizophrenia: is it time to replace the term?

    Yutaka Ono;Yuki Satsumi;Yoshiharu Kim;Toshiharu Iwadate

  • Impact of the term schizophrenia on the culture of ideograph: the Japanese experience.

    Yoshiharu Kim;German E. Berrios

  • Inflammatory markers and their possible effects on cognitive function in women with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Risa Imai;Hiroaki Hori;Mariko Itoh;Mingming Lin

  • Incidence and Prediction of Psychiatric Morbidity After a Motor Vehicle Accident

    Yutaka Matsuoka;Diasuke Nishi;Satomi Nakajima;Yoshiharu Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Daisuke Nishi
Daisuke Nishi University of Tokyo
Regina Bussing
Regina Bussing University of Florida
Sheila M. Eyberg
Sheila M. Eyberg University of Florida
Yutaka Ono
Yutaka Ono Keio University
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London
M. Katherine Shear
M. Katherine Shear Columbia University
Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff University of Amsterdam
Dean G. Kilpatrick
Dean G. Kilpatrick Medical University of South Carolina
Meaghan O'Donnell
Meaghan O'Donnell University of Melbourne
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University

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