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A Double-Blind Trial of Amitriptyline/Perphenazine, Perphenazine and Placebo in Chronic Withdrawn Inert Schizophrenics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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Since the introduction of chlorpromazine in the early 1950's, various phenothiazine tranquillizers have become established as standard treatment in schizophrenia. However, it is recognized that these drugs have their limitations; every mental hospital contains a large group of schizophrenics whose illness is unaffected or only partially modified by phenothiazines, and some patients develop side-effects sufficiently severe to preclude these drugs being given in fully effective doses.
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