How common is violence in schizophrenia despite neuroleptic treatment?

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 98-102

  Steinert, Tilman ^a   Sippach, T ^a   Gebhardt, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROTHIXENE; CLOZAPINE; FLUPENTIXOL; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PERAZINE; REMOXIPRIDE; ZOTEPINE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0034121867     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-342     Document Type: Article

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