Short term effectiveness of haloperidol versus risperidone in first-episode schizophrenia
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Short-term treatment with risperidone or haloperidol in first-episode schizophrenia: 8-week results of a randomized controlled trial within the German Research Network on Schizophrenia.
Patients with first-episode schizophrenia appear to respond to lower doses of neuroleptics, and to be more sensitive to developing extrapyramidal side-effects. The authors therefore compared in such patients the efficacy and extrapyramidal tolerability of comparatively low dosages of the atypical neuroleptic risperidone and of the conventional neuroleptic haloperidol. Risperidone was hypothesiz...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2010-1058,2059-2329
DOI: 10.1177/2010105815618673