No mourning for the conventional antipsychotics: the dawn of the atypical agents.
As Markowitz et al. explain, the atypical antipsychotics should become the first-line agents for the treatment of schizophrenia. There is much to be learned about these drugs, but their displacement of the conventional antipsychotics will be a continuous process. The loss of the older drugs will not be mourned.
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Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA.
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000191:economics / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*