Aleksandr M Reznik, Timur S Syunyakov, Aleksandr V Mudrak, Nikolay B Zakharov, Zhanna B Popova, Anastasia N Khoroshilova, Ilona G Khurbatova, Alina M Saifulina, Anton M Eliseenko, Tatiana K Matvievskaya, Angelina N Khannanova
BACKGROUND: Depression in patients with schizophrenia worsens the course of the disease by increasing the risk of suicide, by complicating the clinical picture of the disorder, and by reducing the quality of the social functioning; its treatment is difficult, since monotherapy, even when involving modern antipsychotics, does not always prove successful. While the prescription of additional antidepressants (ADs) can improve the likelihood of a better outcome, the effectiveness of such augmentation in many cases is yet to be proven...
March 31, 2023: Consort Psychiatr