title: [Use of vasopressin the treatment of the paranoid form of schizophrenia].
abstract: Forty-seven males suffering from paranoid schizophrenia running a paroxysm-like progressive course were treated with the synthetic neuropeptide arginine-vasopressin, a hormone of the posterior lobe of the hypophysis. The therapeutic effect of the hormone was confirmed by a complex of clinical, laboratory and pathopsychological techniques. Both objective methods of investigation and subjective assessment of the patients demonstrated a high efficacy of the drug which was expressed in a marked psychoenergizing action, a beneficial effect on emotional disorders, a memory improvement and a favourable influence on the apatho-abulic manifestations.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin
vernacular_title: Primenenie vazopressina v terapii bol'nykh paranoidnoĭ formoĭ shizofrenii.