What is it about?
Antipsychotic drugs and add-on stabilizing drugs are prescribed in schizoaffective patients. The prescribed drugs depend on the form of schizoaffective disorder, if it is a monopolar or bipolar disorder with schizophrenic symptoms.
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Why is it important?
The choice of the appropriate prophylactic drug may prevent a recurrence of affective and schizophrenic symptoms. One example is given: the mood-stabilizing drug lithium can prevent recurrence of affective symptoms in one third of the patients.
Perspectives
By chosing an appropriate prophylactic drug, the patients who can find support by psychoeducation can have a better outcome of the disease.
Dr Felix-Martin Werner
Euro Akademie Pößneck
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This page is a summary of: How to Choose an Appropriate Prophylactic Drug, February 2016, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/9781681082158116010009.
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