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Treatment duration of psychiatric disorders: long-term treatment of resistant schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

JM Kane
JM Kane*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hillside Hospital, A Division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, New York; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
*
Correspondence and reprints: Hillside Hospital, PO Box 38, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
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Summary

Although antipsychotic medications are extremely valuable in both the acute and long-term management of schizophrenia, a substantial subgroup of patients derive little or only partial benefit. A variety of strategies to treat such patients are reviewed.

Keywords

schizophreniapsychopharmacologytreatment
Type
Review
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , 1993 , pp. 281 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1993

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