Combination alprazolam-neuroleptic treatment of the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (1) , 85-87
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.1.85
Abstract
Alprazolam, when added under double-blind conditions to a stable neuroleptic regimen in two patients with schizophrenia, resulted in clinically apparent improvement in positive and negative schizophrenic symptoms. Both patients showed significant worsening of symptoms following reduction or discontinuation of alprazolam.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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