Controlling the Cascade: New Treatments to Manage Patients with Schizophrenia-Uncontrolled schizophrenia places an undue burden on the health care system that involves repeated hospitalizations and ED visits, steady disease progression, and unmanageable costs. While treatments are available, barriers to optimal outcomes still exist. Drugs in late stage development are focused on novel targets and may hold a promising future for effectively treating schizophrenia while minimizing adverse events. This engaging discussion-based program includes a theoretical framework for how the dopamine and glutamate systems can work together to improve outcomes of schizophrenia, as well as recent studies of emerging therapy that holds promise for increased efficacy in treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Assess unmet needs in current therapeutic management of schizophrenia.
Distinguish the mechanisms of action of current and emerging therapies in schizophrenia and their potential role in the treatment paradigm.
Evaluate the cascade of patient management issues in schizophrenia and the role of medication management to improve outcomes.
Distinguish the mechanisms of action of current and emerging therapies in schizophrenia and their potential role in the treatment paradigm.
Evaluate the cascade of patient management issues in schizophrenia and the role of medication management to improve outcomes.
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