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A Comparison of Oxypertine and Diazepam in Anxiety Neurosis seen in Hospital Out-patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. J. Wadzisz*
Affiliation:
West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey

Extract

Oxypertine (Integrin, Winthrop Laboratories) is a phenylpiperazine derivative unrelated to the phenothiazines or benzodiazepines. It has powerful anti-psychotic properties demonstrated in early trials and reviewed by Skarbek and Jacobsen (1965).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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