Yuko Fukase

Cognitive dysfunction in patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment showing hemispheric asymmetries of hypometabolism on ¹⁸F-FDG PET.

We investigated cognitive dysfunction in patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) who present hemispheric asymmetries of cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc) decrease on 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography.

Characteristics of dementia patients who described or did not describe the relationship between two people on the COGNISTAT speech sample

ABSTRACT Speech sample of Cognitive Status Examination (COGNISTAT) is a task in which examinees freely talk about what is happening in a presented picture. We investigated whether there are differences in the characteristics between patients who described or did not describe the relationship between two people in the speech sample based on age, gender, cognitive dysfunction, and type of dementia (Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies). The participants were 60-year-old or older patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia with Lewy bodies who undertook the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and COGNISTAT at a general hospital specialized in care for the elderly. MMSE and COGNISTAT were performed by a female clinical psychologist in all patients. In a stepwise logistic regression analysis using the two groups (description and no description groups) as a response variable, and the age, gender, diagnosis, MMSE score, and score of each COGNISTAT subtest as explanatory variables, the MMSE score (OR = 1.09; 95% CI [1.03, 1.15]) and gender (OR = 1.79; 95% CI [1.09, 2.93]) factors were extracted. These results indicated that patients with severer overall cognitive dysfunction and male patients were unlikely to describe the relationship between two people in a speech sample.

Characteristics of depression in community-dwelling elderly people as indicated by the tree-drawing test.

The tree‐drawing test (TDT) is a typical projective method, but previous studies have paid little attention to it for elderly people. We investigated the characteristics of depression in community‐dwelling elderly people as indicated by the TDT.

心理臨床家のプロフェッションの生成と継承II : 唯一無二の人生・体験への尊び

心理臨床の世界は,伝え手と受け手,そしてその間や周りの人々が複雑に関わる領域である。この領域において,専門性の生成や後進への世代継承はどのように行われているのだろうか。本研究では心理臨床家である上智大学大学院教授の黒川由紀子先生に,専門性の生成と世代継承に関する面接調査を行う機会を得た。面接調査から,黒川先生の専門性の生成と継承には,①自らの未熟さに向き合い続ける姿勢,②変化を続ける内的な恩師との関係とそこから受ける薫陶,③後進の自己一致を促そうとする意識が特質として認められた。最後に,本研究の面接調査が,世代継承という特徴も備えていることから,後進である筆者の中に生じた世代継承について考察した。