EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

60 Schizophrenic patients were given LiCo(3)/Chlorpromazine for 4 weeks, in a double blind cross over study with two placebo crossovers of 1 week before and two weeks after active treatment. Several core schizophrenic features showed significant reduction in severity with lithium. However, CPZ treat...

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Autores principales: Dube, S., Sethi, B. B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058537
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description 60 Schizophrenic patients were given LiCo(3)/Chlorpromazine for 4 weeks, in a double blind cross over study with two placebo crossovers of 1 week before and two weeks after active treatment. Several core schizophrenic features showed significant reduction in severity with lithium. However, CPZ treatment was superior in terms of improvement, as compared to the other group on MBPRS and CGIS. Target symptoms may be one situation, where lithium could be tried and these results are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30129412011-11-06 EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA Dube, S. Sethi, B. B. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 60 Schizophrenic patients were given LiCo(3)/Chlorpromazine for 4 weeks, in a double blind cross over study with two placebo crossovers of 1 week before and two weeks after active treatment. Several core schizophrenic features showed significant reduction in severity with lithium. However, CPZ treatment was superior in terms of improvement, as compared to the other group on MBPRS and CGIS. Target symptoms may be one situation, where lithium could be tried and these results are discussed. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3012941/ /pubmed/22058537 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_full EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_fullStr EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_full_unstemmed EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_short EFFICACY OF LITHIUM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_sort efficacy of lithium in schizophrenia
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058537
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