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A 7‐Year Follow‐Up Study on the Mental Health of North Korean Defectors in South Korea

Woo‐Taek Jeon, Jin‐Sup Eom, Sung Kil Min

Journal of Traumatic Stress > 26 > 1 > 158 - 164

This study was conducted to describe the relationship of past trauma and current stress on the mental health of North Korean (NK) defectors living in South Korea 7 years after a baseline assessment. Of the 200 who participated in the initial study, 106 participated in follow‐up. Previous data regarding past traumatic events experienced in North Korea and during defection, past posttraumatic stress...

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Differences in temperament and character dimensions of personality between patients with Hwa-byung, an anger syndrome, and patients with major depressive disorder

Jieun Lee, Sung Kil Min, Keung-Hyang Kim, Borah Kim, more

Journal of Affective Disorders > 2012 > 138 > 1-2 > 110-116

This study examined differences in temperament and character dimensions of personality between patients with Hwa-byung (HB) and those with major depressive disorder (MDD).Of 144 participants, 96 completed the Korean version of the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised Short (TCI-RS) and the Hwa-byung Scale. We diagnosed participants according to the DSM-IV and the Research Diagnostic Criteria...

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Effectiveness of smoking cessation program for male adolescents in South Korea

JongSerl Chun, Yi Jin Bae, Sung Kil Min

Children and Youth Services Review > 2012 > 34 > 1 > 304-310

The objective of this study was to implement and verify the effectiveness of a smoking cessation program based on a cognitive behavioral model, composed of six sessions. Participants included 80 male middle school students who smoked. They were divided into experimental (n=35 students) and comparison (n=45 students) groups, and the smoking cessation program was conducted in the experimental group...

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The anger syndrome hwa-byung and its comorbidity

Sung Kil Min, Shin-young Suh

Journal of Affective Disorders > 2010 > 124 > 1-2 > 211-214

The aim of this study was to identify patients with hwa-byung (HB), a Korean culture-related anger syndrome, and to compare the comorbidities of HB with those of other psychiatric disorders.The study participants included 280 patients with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, adjustment disorders, or self-labeled hwa-byung. For all patients, the DSM-IV diagnosis was made...

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Mental health and quality of life of North Korean defectors living in Japan

Chang-ho Lee, Sung-kil Min, Woo-taek Jeon, Mika Kigawa, more

Asian Journal of Psychiatry > 2009 > 2 > 3 > 95-99

The aim of this study was to clarify the effect of migration of North Korean defectors to different host countries on the mental health and quality of life of the migrants by comparing three subject groups: North Korean defectors living in Japan, a group of Japanese workers living in Japan (for comparison), and North Korean defectors living in South Korea. The North Korean defectors living in Japan...

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Aggressive behavior model in schizophrenic patients

Hyunjoo Song, Sung Kil Min

Psychiatry Research > 2009 > 167 > 1-2 > 58-65

This study aimed to determine the optimal model for explaining the aggressive behavior of schizophrenic patients in relation to certain behavioral variables including anger, schizophrenic symptoms, and cognitive function. Schizophrenic patients were evaluated with the Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS) for aggressive behaviors, with irritability and resentment; with the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory...

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Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism in relation to aggressive schizophrenia in a Korean population

Youl-Ri Kim, Jeong Hyun Kim, Se Joo Kim, Dongeun Lee, more

European Neuropsychopharmacology > 2008 > 18 > 11 > 820-825

We examined the association between the Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism and aggressive schizophrenia. The sample included 61 aggressive schizophrenic patients as well as 104 non-aggressive patients from psychiatric hospitals and 415 healthy volunteers in South Korea. In the case–control comparisons, there was no significant association between the aggressive schizophrenic...

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Differences in beta-adrenergic receptor sensitivity between women and men with panic disorder

Youl-Ri Kim, Sung Kil Min, Bum-Hee Yu

European Neuropsychopharmacology > 2004 > 14 > 6 > 515-520

This study was conducted on patients with panic disorder (PD) to examine the gender differences in the pathophysiology of PD by evaluating and comparing the value of CD ₂ ₅ /wt, the chronotropic 25 dose of isoproterenol (CD ₂ ₅ ) divided by the body weight, which reflects the in vivo index of β-adrenergic receptor sensitivity. This study included a total of 70 subjects, including...

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Effects of ginseng saponin administered intraperitoneally on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in mice

Do-Hoon Kim, Yoo-Sun Moon, Jun-Sub Jung, Sung-Kil Min, more

Neuroscience Letters > 2003 > 343 > 1 > 62-66

Intraperitoneal injection of ginseng total saponin (GTS; 5 and 20 mg/kg) raised plasma corticosterone levels in mice. However, interestingly, pretreatment of animals with the same doses of GTS (5 and 20 mg/kg) significantly attenuated the immobilization stress-induced increase in plasma corticosterone levels. Of the ginsenosides Rb ₁ , Rb ₂ , Rc, Rd, Re, Rf, Rg ₁ , 20(S)-Rg...

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Positive and negative symptoms and regional cerebral perfusion in antipsychotic-naive schizophrenic patients: a high-resolution SPECT study

Sung Kil Min, Suk Kyoon An, Duk-In Jon, Jong Doo Lee

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging > 1999 > 90 > 3 > 159-168

In 17 antipsychotic-naive schizophrenic patients, the scores of positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia were correlated with relative regional cerebral perfusion measured by 99m-Tc-ECD (ethyl cysteinate dimer) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Scans were performed in subjects at rest. The negative symptom dimension was significantly correlated with a decreased level of perfusion...

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