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TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WITH A PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE (PROCHLORPERAZINE) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AFTER CARE

J. ST. LAURENT, C. H. CAHN, and T. A. BANAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 118, Number 10

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.10.938

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1. Prochlorperazine has proved to be an effective drug for the treatment of acute psychotic conditions and for maintenance therapy in an after care setting of chronic psychiatric patients. It is particularly valuable in paranoid states and schizophrenia. Frequent side effects (53%) especially of the extrapyramidal type were generally controlled without difficulty by the addition of anti-parkinsonian drugs.

2. Frequently, discontinuation or decrease of the dose of prochlorperazine resulted in exacerbation of symptoms, which in most cases responded promptly to resumption of maintenance therapy or to increase of dosage.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 118 • Number 10 • April 1962

Pages: 938 - 940

PubMed: 13916022

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Published in print: April 1962

Published online: 1 April 2006

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J. ST. LAURENT

Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.

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C. H. CAHN

Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.

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T. A. BAN

Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.

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TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WITH A PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE (PROCHLORPERAZINE) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AFTER CARE

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