Psychiatry
Overview
Provides specialist diagnosis and treatment for psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety-related conditions, and psychiatric symptoms in medically complex patients.
Key Strengths at Kobe University Hospital
- Care for acute and chronic psychiatric illness within a large academic medical center, including patients who also require treatment by other hospital departments.
- Specialist management of treatment-resistant mood and psychotic disorders with careful medication-based and longitudinal treatment planning.
- Collaboration with palliative care, neurology, internal medicine, and surgery for psychiatric symptoms arising in the setting of severe physical illness.
Major Conditions / Services
- Depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety-related disorders
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Psychiatric complications in medically complex patients
Representative Procedures / Programs
- Comprehensive psychiatric assessment
- Medication-based and longitudinal psychiatric care
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry within the general hospital