The inter-rater reliability of the Japanese version of the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, clinician version.

The Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, clinician version (IDS‐C), was developed by Rush et al. to evaluate the severity of major depressive episodes. The aim of the present study was to establish the inter‐rater reliability of the Japanese version of the IDS‐C.

Brief PANSS to assess and monitor the overall severity of schizophrenia.

Aims: The aim of the present study was to develop a subscale of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) that would be brief and sensitive to changes in the clinical features of schizophrenia (i.e. the Brief PANSS, or bPANSS).

Three cases of schizophrenia for which olanzapine was effective after early acute phase.

Aims: It clarifies a difference between early acute phase and late acute phase in medication.

Methods: The present report describes three patients with schizophrenia who presented with restlessness and excitement requiring hospitalization.

Results: Treatment with risperidone solution orally or parenteral haloperidol until the day after admission, followed by olanzapine, successfully improved the clinical condition of the patients.

Methamphetamine psychosis in which tardive dystonia was successfully treated with clonazepam.

Reported herein is a case of methamphetamine psychosis in which tardive dystonia was treated successfully with clonazepam. The patient was a 69-year-old man who had taken methamphetamine habitually for approximately 40 years. Auditory hallucinations had developed 25 years previously, for which haloperidol had been prescribed.