Treatment-refractory and super refractory schizophrenia - a case study
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Treatment-refractory schizophrenia
Between one-third and one-half of the individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia remain actively ill despite optimal pharmacological treatment. These individuals tend to progressively deteriorate in terms of social and vocational functioning despite major public and private investments in their rehabilitation. For patients who do not respond to the first prescribed antipsychotic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Problems of Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2353-8627
DOI: 10.1515/cpp-2017-0022