The KIHS conducts the following research.

Epidemiological studies on eating disorders in the students of high schools and universities.

Y. Nakai, K. Nin, S. Noma, Epidemiological data on eating disorders in Japan. In. C. Gramaglia, & P. Zeppegno. (Eds.) New Developments in Anorexia Nervosa Research, NY, USA: Nova Science Publishers, INC, pp. 173-187, 2014

Y. Nakai, K. Nin, S. Noma, Eating disorder symptoms among Japanese female students in 1982, 1992 and 2002. Psychiatry Res 219(1):151-156, 2014

Y. Nakai, K. Nin, M. Fukushima, K. Nakamura, S. Noma, S. Tearmukai, A. Taniguchi, S. Wonderlich, Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q): Norms for Undergraduate Japanese women. Eur Eat Disord Rev 22(6):439-442, 2014

Research on the diagnosis, clinical profiles and treatment of patients with eating disorders.

Y. Nakai, M. Fukushima, A. Taniguchi, K. Nin, S. Teramukai, Comparison of DSM-IV versus proposed DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for eating disorders in a Japanese sample. Eur Eat Disord Rev. 21(1):8-14, 2013

Y. Nakai, K. Nin, S. Teramukai, A. Taniguchi, M. Fukushima, S.A. Wonderlich, Comparison of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria versus the Broad Categories for the Diagnosis of Eating Disorders scheme in a Japanese sample. Eat Behav. 2013 14(3):330-5, 2013

Y. Nakai, K. Nin, S. Teramukai, A. Taniguchi, M. Fukushima, S.A. Wonderlich, Typical and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa in a Japanese Sample. Int J Eat Disord 47(2): 130-137, 2013

Y Nakai, K Nin, S Noma, S Hamagaki, R Takagi, S.A. Wonderlich, Outcome of eating disorders in a Japanese sample: A 4- to 9-year follow-up study. Eur Eat Disord Rev 22(3):206-211, 2014

Y. Nakai, M. Fujita, K. Nin, S. Noma, S. Teramukai, Relationship between duration of illness and cardiac autonomic nervous activity in anorexia nervosa. BioPsychoSoc Med, 9-12, 2015 (doi: 10.1186/s13030-015-0032-6. eCollection 2015)

Lecture on psychosomatic diseases.

Eating disorder examination questionnaire (EDE-Q): Norms for Japanese adolescent girls and boys in high schools

Study on the body image of eating disorders with a new figure rating scale: Japanese body silhouette scale type-I

XXIst Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Taormina, Sicily, September 17 - 19, 2015