Schizophrenic psychoses in childhood and adolescence: A guide to diagnosis and drug choice

CNS Drugs

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 100-112

  Remschmidt, Helmut ^a   Schulz, Eberhard ^a   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; HALOPERIDOL; LOXAPINE; MOLINDONE; PIMOZIDE; THIORIDAZINE; TIOTIXENE; TRIFLUOPERAZINE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0029768793     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00023210-199606020-00003     Document Type: Review

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