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New psychological treatments in schizophrenia
The first line of treatment for patients with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia is neuroleptic medication. Neuroleptics have provid ed substantial benefits to patients with this type of severe mental illness since their discovery as a treatment for psychosis in the 1950s. Despite this, there are still a large number of patients who do not respond fully to neuroleptic medication or who a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn179