Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology: “Guideline for Pharmacological Therapy of Schizophrenia”

• Published in: Neuropsychopharmacology reports Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 266 - 324
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Guidelines; Guidelines as Topic; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Japan; Medicine; Patients; Pharmaceutical industry; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Public speaking; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - drug therapy; Societies; Japan
• ISSN: 2574-173X; 2574-173X
• DOI: 10.1002/npr2.12193

English translation team: (affiliation as of May 2021) Ryota Hashimoto, Department of Pathology of Mental Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Junichi Iga, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine Ken Inada, Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Women’s Medical University Taro Kishi, Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine Hiroshi Kimura, Department of Psychiatry, International University of Health and Welfare/Gakuji-kai Kimura Hospital Yuki Matsuda, Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine Nobumi Miyake, Department of Neuropsychiatry, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kiyotaka Nemoto, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba Shusuke Numata, Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Tokushima University Shinichiro Ochi, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Molecules and Function, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine Hideki Sato, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Seiichiro Tarutani, Department of Psychiatry, Shin-Abuyama Hospital, Osaka Institute of Clinical Psychiatry Hiroyuki Uchida, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine English translation team: (COI as of 2018-2020) Ryota Hashimoto: Received research grants from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan Tobacco Inc., and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.; rewards for lectures from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., Lundbeck Japan K.K., Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd., and Mochida Pharmaceutical.Co., Ltd.; manuscript fees for writing from Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. Junchi Iga: Received rewards for lectures from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Meiji Seika Pharma Co. Ltd., Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. Ltd., Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry Co. Ltd., Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Eisai Co. Ltd., Mylan Inc., Sawai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Novartis Pharma K.K., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., MSD K.K., Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Sanofi K.K., Viatris Inc., and Yoshitomiyakuhin Co. Ken Inada: Received research grants, rewards for lectures, manuscript fees for writing, and donations from Astellas Pharma Inc., Eisai Co. Ltd., MSD K.K., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. Ltd., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Novartis Pharma K.K., Pfizer Inc., Meiji Seika Pharma Co. Ltd., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., and Yoshitomiyakuhin Co. Taro Kishi: Received speaker’s honoraria from Sumitomo Dainippon, Otsuka, Eisai, Daiichi Sankyo, Janssen, Takeda, Kyowa, Kissei, Meiji, Pfizer, Mochida, Eli Lilly, MSD, Janssen, and Tanabe-Mitsubishi (Yoshitomi); as well as research grants from Eisai, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, and Fujita Health University School of Medicine. Before reading this guideline (For experts, patients, families, and supporters) This guideline was written for specialists in the treatment of schizophrenia, but patients, as well as their families and supporters, may also use this guideline. [...]a very simple explanation will first be given on the aims of this guideline. [...]one may have the impression from reading the individual texts that it is recommended to treat schizophrenia with pharmacological therapy alone, or that pharmacological therapy has a larger effect than other therapies. [...]the available drugs and their administration and the medical system can vary between Japan and other countries. [...]a clinical guideline that is aligned with the medical circumstances in Japan was needed.