Posted by med_empowered on March 30, 2006, at 12:00:51
In reply to Re: Atypical antipsychotics as prophylaxis? » tygereyes, posted by yxibow on March 30, 2006, at 2:38:09
im not quite sure what you mean by your question. There was a study I read about where they gave non-psychotic 1st degree relatives of schizophrenics atypicals to see if it could somehow "protect" them from schizophrenia, which I think was pretty ridiculous and a waste of time and research $$$. There's apparently some renewed interest in drug-free psychosis treatment and in very low-dose, "targeted" (episodic) psychosis treatment so...in that context, I think the use of atypicals for psychosis "prevention" seems both ridiculous and unacceptably risky (not to mention unbelievably costly).
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