“Golden Shot” in the Treatment and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Psychiatrists or Neuroscientists?
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the available published data indicate that antagonism towards D2 receptors of dopamine is a «necessary condition» in the process of effective treatment of schizophrenia, but at the same time, this antagonism is insufficient to achieve a state of complete remission. These data serve as a powerful stimulus for the process of searching new treatments and synthesizing new drugs. The current status of the theory of neural networks demonstrates to the professional community that in order to effectively change the functioning of basic biological systems, a number of subtle changes in the central nerv...
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