The Future of Schizophrenia Psychopharmacotherapy: More Antipsychotic Atypicality? Guess So!

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28 February 2023


Abstract

No single neurotransmitter aberration could explain the heterogeneity of schizophrenia syndrome and thus, treatment strategies capitalizing solely on a single neurotransmitter system (e.g., DA blockade) is less likely to be fully successful on clinical grounds. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop newer antipsychotics above and beyond DA antagonism. In this regard, authors brief on five agents that sound pretty promising and might usher in a new sparkle in the psychopharmacotherapy of schizophrenia. This paper is a sequel for authors' previous article on future of schizophrenia psychopharmacotherapy.

Keywords: brilaroxazine; emraclidine; evenamide; ralmitaront; roluperidone; schizophrenia.


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