The Effects of an Indigenous Muscarinic Drug, Betel Nut (Areca Catechu), on the Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Study in Palau, Micronesia

Sullivan, Roger J.; Andres, Sylvia; Otto, Caleb; Miles, Wayne; Kydd, Robert (April 2007). "The Effects of an Indigenous Muscarinic Drug, Betel Nut (Areca Catechu), on the Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Study in Palau, Micronesia". American Journal of Psychiatry. 164 (4): 671–673. doi:10.1176/ajp.2007.164.4.670. ISSN 0002-953X.

Abstract: The contents incorporate results presented at the 15th and 16th Japan Tourism Research Association National Conferences in December 2000 and December 2001, respectively, addressing representations of Micronesia in relation to Japan and the status and possibilities of representation as a research object. They also include material from the 19th Japan Society for Oceanic Studies Research Conference in March 2002 on representations of Micronesia in contemporary tourism, compared with representations of the South Sea Islands (Nanyo Gunto). Details of the Japan Tourism Research Association presentations are indicated in Senju 2000 and 2001. Quotations from historical literature are reproduced faithfully, including archaic orthography and expressions now regarded as discriminatory. Place names in Micronesia are standardized to appellations commonly used during the period when Japan governed or occupied the Nanyo Gunto. The publication Nan’yo Kaitaku Ju Nenshi lists Matsue Shunji as author, while its preface notes that the actual compilation was undertaken by company employee Utamaru Koshiro. An example of practice grounded in representations is identified among tourists, with Endo Hideki examining the reception process of Nara as a tourist destination and documenting practices by individual tourists that differ from media-formed images. A referenced study by Tomiyama Ichiro (1996), Tropical Science and Colonialism: Analysis of Differences around “Islanders,” appears in a volume edited by Sakai Naoki, Brett de Bary, Nee, and Iyotani Toshio, published in Tokyo by Kashiwa Shobo, pages 57–80.

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