For decades there has been almost no improvement in the medical treatment of schizophrenia, one of the most serious and devastating of all mental illnesses, but recent advances have raised hopes of progress.
The condition often only hits the headlines after violent attacks by sufferers, such as a schizophrenic patient who stabbed a nurse to death last week in the French city of Reims.schizophrenia"All the work done over the years trying to de-stigmatize this disease—it is swept away in 24 hours," Dollfus told AFP.
Scottish psychiatrist Robin Murray, who has spent decades researching schizophrenia, told AFP that when it came to medication,"treatment has not changed dramatically" over the last 20 or 30 years.—particularly neurotic conditions—taking serious drugs remains the cornerstone in treating schizophrenia.For drugs, there has been a"blank period since the 2010s, when pharmaceutical laboratories really withdrew from psychiatry," Dollfus said.
Dollfus said that some drugs currently being investigated are"really interesting" because they work in a different way than those of the past. Traditional anti-psychotic drugs, which tend to work well at stopping certain symptoms such as hallucinations, do not help in other areas, such as the loss of willpower or struggles with language and speech.
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