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20 sty 2020 · One possible explanation is that mood-stabilizing drugs, such as lithium, are most often used to treat the symptoms of bipolar disorder and patients with other illnesses such as schizoaffective...
3 lut 2021 · Objective. To investigate the long-term real-world effectiveness of antipsychotics and other psychopharmacotherapies in the treatment of schizoaffective disorder (SCHAFF). Method. Two nationwide cohorts of SCHAFF patients were identified from Finnish and Swedish registers. Within-individual design was used with stratified Cox regression.
25 maj 2021 · To explore the efficacy of pharmacotherapies for schizoaffective disorder, Lintunen and colleagues 6 looked at 2 nationwide cohorts. Treatments included oral and long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines together (zopiclone, zolpidem, and zaleplon, also known as Z ...
20 sty 2020 · Our current study provides a plausible mechanism for the effect of lithium in the treatment of symptoms of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Thus, our data mining results indicate and confirm that lithium has been regularly used in both inpatients and outpatients and that lithium might be beneficial for the treatment of ...
1. Lithium alone is an effective treatment for schizophrenia, schizophrenia-like psychoses and schizoaffective psychoses; and 2. Lithium augmentation of antipsychotic medication is an effective treatment for the same illnesses.
The importance of such factors may be underlined by an example: the introduction of lithium salts treatment has not only shown therapeutic implications but has also resulted in diagnostic bias in favour of affective psychoses by American psychiatrists (7). Download to read the full chapter text.
The most generally held view (9–13) of lithium as a prophylactic drug is that it is of most value in preventing the recurrent affective attacks of patients with manic-depressive psychosis and cyclothymia.
