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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
Conventional antipsychotic (CA) medications – are neuroleptic drugs used to treat psychotic based disorders, such as Schizophrenia. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
+ Prior to the introduction of CA in the 1950s, schizophrenia was generally considered to be untreatable - lifetime asylum incarceration. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
Cole et al (1964) conducted one of the first major studies of the effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs (placebo). |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
Atypical Antipsychotics (ATP) have been developed since 1990s, and work differently to conventional antipsychotics, they are received at fewer dopamine D2 receptors and at more D1, D4 and serotonin receptors. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
+ ATP help those with negative symptoms as well as those with positive symptoms and they produce fewer motor side effects such as tardive dyskinesia. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
They appear to be even more effective, helping 85% of people with S, more than those helped by CA. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
+Taking APs requires little effort and its effects can be almost instantaneous. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
ECT is usually a last resort therapy for people with severe life threatening depression who haven’t responded to anti-depressant drugs. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
Is there a placebo effect? Some studies have given patients ‘sham ECT’, where all procedures are followed apart from the electric current. They found that although those give real ECT were quicker and more likely to report feeling better, some given sham ECT also reported feeling better. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
It can be very effective. Comer (2002) states that 60-70% of people given ECT will show improvement. |
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Biological therapies for S, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness |
Although biological therapies have their shortfalls, they are generally quite effective and the development of APs for treating S has undoubtedly released millions of people from a lifetime in psychiatric hospitals. |