title: Advances in psychopharmacology--schizophrenia.
abstract: Every so often in the history of medicine, events occur which in retrospect seem to mark a defining moment. For psychiatry, the decade of the 1950s uses one such 'moment.' On 28 December 1951, J. Sigwald started solo chlorpromazine treatment of a 57-year-old psychotic lady and, thereby, it might be argued, began the modern era of psychopharmacology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Owens
mesh_terms: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001549:Benzamides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D001549:Benzamides