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Do findings from new trials for schizophrenia fit with existing evidence: not duped … just beguiled?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Clive E. Adams  and
Mahesh Jayaram
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No treatment has caused a greater revolution in the treatment of people with schizophrenia than chlorpromazine. The new generation of drugs has been embraced by psychiatry with an enthusiasm fostered by the unmet needs of both patients and industry. Recent, independently funded trials have highlighted already existing data illustrating how the new antipsychotics drugs are an additional advance but not a revolution. In this story there are lessons for psychiatry to opt for science rather than seduction.

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 199 - 202
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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