Biological therapies for schizophrenia AO2
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- Created on: 06-12-13 13:11
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- Biological therapies for schiz AO2
- significant difference in relapse rates between placebo and treatment groups
- antipsychotic meds good for schizos in hostile environment meds relapse was 53% but placebo was 92%
- schizos in good environment no significant difference
- conventional antipsychotics have worrying side effects. 30% people develop tardive dyskinesia, irreversible in 75% cases
- claim that atypical antipsychotics is good for negative symptoms has marginal support
- being given meds reinforces the belief that something is wrong. make it hard to identify possible stressors and therefore ppl dont look for solutions
- atypical antipsychotics only moderately better than conventional
- AA have lower risk of tardive dyskinesia, fewer side effects=more likely to continue
- Results of ECT no different or worse than antipsychotic indian study found no difference in symptom reduction
- due to risks use of ECT has declined
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