Objective: We investigated the effects of an atypical antipsychotic agent, quetiapine, in treatment-refractory schizophrenia. Methods: The subjects were 10 inpatients who were diagnosed according to the DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia. They were termed treatment refractory. We tried to switch patients from typical antipsychotics to quetiapine. Each patient gave informed consent for the resear...

BACKGROUND There is concern over the methods used to evaluate antipsychotic drugs. AIMS To assess the clinical relevance of findings in the literature. METHOD A systematic review identified studies of antipsychotics that used the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). A published method of translating these into Clinical Global Impression - C...

Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) may be associated with several psychological and affective disorders. It is controversial, however, if these symptoms are a cause or rather a consequence of alcohol dependence. There are few data testing simultaneously psychosocial and affective disorders before and after a period of alcohol abstinence. The aim of this study was to perform multiple psychometric eval...

Although major depressive disorder (MDD) has a variety of symptoms beyond the affective dimensions, the factor structure and contents of comprehensive psychiatric symptoms of this disorder have rarely been explored using the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). We aimed to identify the factor structure of the 18-item BPRS in Korean MDD patients. A total of 258 MDD patients were recrui...

The Return on Asset (ROA) value of Islamic rural banks (BPRS) keeps decreasing during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically from 2020 to 2021. ROA Sharia Commercial Bank and Business Unit also decreased in but increased During many financial institutions were trouble, BPRS was still able survive midst a crisis. This phenomenon attracted some scholars study factors that made pandemic. aims analyze...

Usefulness of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in distinguishing positive and negative subtypes of schizophrenia is presented. Ninety five schizophrenic patients were assessed on BPRS. Significant differences emerged between positive and negative subtypes of schizophrenia on items like emotional withdrawal, guilt feelings, tension, hallucinatory behaviour, motor retardation, blunted af...

Abstract One way to promote public transport use in cities lies establishing bus priority routes (BPRs) on main traffic arterials, reduce travel times. But, BPRs require infrastructure changes road layouts, creating more complex settings that may have safety implications. Previous research indicated design features affect BPRs' safety, but findings regarding the impacts of various BPR configura...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Financing Deposit to (FDR), Dana Pihak Ketiga (DPK) dan Biaya Operasional Pendapatan (BOPO) terhadap Profitabilitas Bank Pembiayaan Rakyat Syariah di Indonesia. Populasi dari penelitian adalah (BPRS) Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Jawa Barat, Banten yang terdaftar Indonesia periode 2018-2021. Sampel dalam 10 bank selama 4...

Psychotic symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) are frequent, disabling, and an important prognostic factor. Thus, screening instruments for detecting psychosis in PD are needed. For this purpose, we applied the Parkinson's Psychosis Questionnaire (PPQ), a short structured questionnaire, which requires no specific training, along with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, expanded version (BPRS-E)...