The usefulness and use of second-generation antipsychotic medications. Review of evidence and recommendations by a Task Force of the World Psychiatric Association

Norman Sartorius, Wolfgang Fleischhacker, Annette Gjerris, Ursula Kern, Martin Knapp, Brian E Leonard, Jeffrey A Lieberman, Juan Jóse López-Ibor, Bas van Raay, Esther Twomey (2002)

Please note: this is a legacy publication from CPEC (formely PSSRU at LSE).

Current Opinion in Psychiatry 15 Supplement 1 S1-S51

Abstract

This supplement to Current Opinions in Psychiatry presents a review of knowledge about the efficacy and safety of the second-generation antipsychotic medications. It also contains a discussion of the context in which treatment of psychiatric disorders,