Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Ortells MO, Lunt GG Evolutionary history of the ligand-gated ion-channel superfamily of receptors. Trends Neurosci 18 121—127, 1995 Overall JE, Gorham DR The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. Psychol Rep 10 799—812,1962 Payne JP The criminal use of chloroform. Anaesthesia 53 685—690, 1998... 

Beck Depression Inventory (Beck) 3. Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) X X... 

Sandoz Clinical Assessment-Geriatric. The Sandoz Clinical Assessment-Geriatric (SCAG) test measures 18 individual symptoms plus a global rating using a seven-point scale similar to those used in the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. It measures the present period or that within the last week, requires about 10 to 15 minutes to complete, and does not contain subtests. 

Children s Psychiatric Rating Scale. The CPRS is a comprehensive scale to assess a wide range of psychopathologies in children up to age 15. It contains 63 items, with a seven-point scale derived from the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). This test rates 28 items by direct observation of the child, based on behavior... 

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-Children s version Public domain. Psychopharmacology Bulletin 1985 21(4)... 

Note. B-A-B = off-on-off BMS = Bipolar Manic Scale BPRS = Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Overall and Gorham 1962) BRMS = Bech-Raefelson Mania Scale (Bech et ah 1979) Bunney-Hamburg = Bunney-Hamburg Rating Scale (Bunney and Hamburg 1963) ... 

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS Overall and Gorham, 1962) is an 18-item rating instrument covering a wide range of psychopathology. Ratings are... 

FIG. 5-3. Effects of neuroleptics on thought disorder and behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia. BPRS, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale TDI, Thought Disorder Index. (From Davis JM, Barter JT, Kane JM. Antipsychotic drugs. In Kaplan HI, Sadock BJ, eds. Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 5th ed. Baltimore Williams Wilkins, 1989 1604, with permission.)... 

FIG. 5-11. Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) change scores in relationship to trifluoperazine plasma levels. (From Janicak PG, Javaid Jl, Sharma RP, et al. Trifluoperazine plasma levels and clinical response. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1989 9 340-346, with permission.)... 

Dementia sum of boxes), and agitation and hostility/sus-picion (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale). Other adverse effects in those who took prednisone were reduced bone density and a small rise in intraocular pressure. 

Abbrevations CGI, Clinical Global Impressions scale SCZ, schizophrenia GAS, Global SczAD (schizoaffective disorder) PANNS, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale BPRS, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale SANS, Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms. 

NAA in thalamus and f Cho and ml in parietal WM in patients f Cr in WM of patients positively correlated with Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale 4 NAA in corpus callosum of chronic and FE patients patient NAA concentrations negatively correlated with Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, SANS and SAPS Found no difference between first-episode patients and controls in NAA, GM or WM in left medial TL... 

In 19 patients previously treated with clozapine, olanzapine was used instead (9). Eight were considered to be responders and the rest decompensated, seven of them enough to require hospitalization. Overall Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) scores increased significantly from baseline to final assessment. 

Compared with clozapine, considered the gold standard for treatment of patients with refractory schizophrenia, olanzapine had the same level of efficacy (according to the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)) in 150 patients (mean age, 38 years 60% men) who had failed to respond to conventional neuroleptic drugs because of either insufficient effectiveness or intolerable adverse effects (52). Of these, 147 patients, 52 from Hungary and 95 from South Africa, were randomized to olanzapine (n = 75) or clozapine (n = 72) there were no statistically significant... 

Prednisone, 10 mg/day for 1 year, has been evaluated in 136 patients with probable Alzheimer s disease in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (196). There were no differences in the primary measures of efficacy (cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale), but those treated with prednisone had significantly greater memory impairment (Clinical Dementia sum of boxes), and agitation and hostility/suspicion (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale). Other adverse effects in those who took prednisone were reduced bone density and a small rise in intraocular pressure. 

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