Juan Antonio García-Carmona

Juan Antonio García-Carmona

Juan Antonio García-Carmona
Position

Neurologist at Santa Lucía General Hospital in Cartagena, associate professor of Pharmacology at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), researcher in neuropsychiatry at the Murcian Institute for Bio-Health Research (IMIB)

An antipsychotic proves effective in treating schizophrenia when taken orally weekly rather than daily

An oral formulation of risperidone could be administered weekly instead of daily to treat patients with schizophrenia with the same efficacy, according to a phase III clinical trial published in The Lancet Psychiatry. The study included 83 patients in the United States.

 

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