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View Post: Effects of clozapine and olanzapine on cortical thickness in ...
13 Nov 2009 by Anand Mattai, Alex Chavez, Deanna Greenstein,...  
Little is known about the effects of antipsychotic medications on gray matter (GM) in schizophrenia. Although clozapine remains the most effective antipsychotic medication in treatment-refractory cases, it is unknown whether it has a ...
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View Post: Clozapine - Antipsychotic Polypharmacy, Part 1 : The Corpus Callosum
9 Nov 2009 by Joseph j7uy5 none@example.com  
Clozapine is the most effective antipsychotic drug we have. It typically is used for persons with schizophrenia, who do not respond to other medications. Polypharmacy is the practice of combining two or more medications in the same ...
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View Post: BMJ Group blogs: HeadtoHead » Blog Archive » Clozapine: first-line ...
24 Jul 2009 by Steven Reid  
The NICE guidance for schizophrenia (in England and Wales) updated in March this year had this to say about clozapine: Offer clozapine to people with schizophrenia whose illness has not responded adequately to treatment despite the ...
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View Post: LORETA Functional Imaging in Antipsychotic-Naive and Olanzapine ...
9 Sep 2008
Changes in those taking clozapine and olanzapine versus those who were antipsychotic naive suggest a compensatory mechanism in the neurobiological substrate for schizophrenia. The lack of difference in risperidone patients versus ...
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View Post: Edward Orton on NEWS: Clozapine: The Safest Antipsychotic?
17 Nov 2009
Benes notes that clozapine is "...a very effective antipsychotic, and...improvement in clinical status can be quite remarkable." The mortality figures reported by Tihonen et al. have proved quite striking to schizophrenia researchers. ...
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View Post: Pyjamas in Bananas: Are glutamatergic drugs the future for the ...
14 Nov 2009 by pj  
Diaz P, Bhaskara S, Dursun SM, Deakin B. Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of clozapine plus glycine in refractory schizophrenia negative results. J Clin Psychopharmacol 2005;25(3):277-8. 18. Tsai GE, Yang P, Chang YC, ...
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View Post: Prescribing practices of clozapine in India: Results of a opinion ...
20 Nov 2009 by Shrivastava Amresh, Shah Nilesh  
Clozapine has emerged as a gold standard for treatment resistant schizophrenia. It is also effective in a variety of clinical conditions. It is additionally approved for suicide in schizophrenia. However practice of clozapine therapy is ...
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View Post: Schizophrenia/ A father looks at drugs: 10th World Congress of ...
17 Nov 2009 by captainjohann  
Schizophrenia/ A father looks at drugs. Schizophrenia and clozapine.I am also interested in politics , current affairs , tennis etc. .... creative commons. Creative Commons License Schizophrenia a father looks at drugs by ...
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View Post: The symptoms of schizophrenia
24 Nov 2009 by Denispoe  
The current guidelines for medicinal recommend using one of the atypical antipsychotic (not clozapine) as first line treatment of patients who were newly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Although the shift to atypical antipsychotic may not ...
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