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A new study brings us closer to answering why antipsychotics are successful in treating schizophrenia in some patients and not in others.
Non-response to Short-term Antipsychotic Drugs in Schizophrenia
• Many patients with schizophrenia do not respond to antipsychotics, but the epidemiology of this phenomenon is unclear
• Variable definitions of “response” contribute to wide estimates of antipsychotic nonresponse rates
• Therefore, more precise estimates of antipsychotic nonresponse are needed