Influences of Polypharmacy on Hallucinatory Behavior in a Sample of Female Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

Psychiatrists' Characteristics and Polypharmacy

“…Another study showed no significant differences in the residual symptom profiles of patients who were thought by their ward psychiatrists to be best suited to treatment with two major tranquillizers and those for whom a tranquillizer and an antidepressant were prescribed (3). An investigation of the influence of polypharmacy upon hallucinatory behaviour found no significant posttreatment differences in this symptom between patients receiving one drug and a placebo, and patients treated with two active drugs (2). Both the sex (4) and age (1) (1972) of the patients have also been shown to be related to patterns of treatment with drug combinations.…”