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A Double-Blind Trial of Amitriptyline/Perphenazine, Perphenazine and Placebo in Chronic Withdrawn Inert Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. D. Collins  and
J. Dundas
A. D. Collins
Affiliation:
High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire
J. Dundas
Affiliation:
High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire
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Since the introduction of chlorpromazine in the early 1950's, various phenothiazine tranquillizers have become established as standard treatment in schizophrenia. However, it is recognized that these drugs have their limitations; every mental hospital contains a large group of schizophrenics whose illness is unaffected or only partially modified by phenothiazines, and some patients develop side-effects sufficiently severe to preclude these drugs being given in fully effective doses.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 505 , December 1967 , pp. 1425 - 1429
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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