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A Comparison of Results in Schizophrenics Treated with (1) Insulin, (2) Trifluoperazine ("Stelazine")

Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, Surrey

ABSTRACT

A comparison has been made between the effects of trifluoperazine and I.C.T. in schizophrenics of less than two years duration.

The proportion of patients improved was significantly higher in the trifluoperazine-treated group than in the I.C.T. group.

The relapse rate of I.C.T. patients was higher than that of the trifluoperazine-treated group.

The mean duration of stay in hospital was significantly less in trifluoperazine-treated patients.

It would seem that trifluoperazine is equally effective in hebephrenic and paranoid schizophrenics of recent onset.