The study demonstrated that these medicines are effective, but that doctors and patients are looking for more. The medicines didn’t completely alleviate symptoms or enable the majority of the patients to experience a complete recovery.

The differences observed are not in and of themselves outside the range of variation seen in the normal population.

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, … But it’s also clear that we need new treatments.

Probably the biggest surprise of all was that the older medication produced about as good an effect as the newer medications, three of them anyway, and did not produce neurological side effects at greater rates...

These treatments are effective–there’s no doubt about that. But the glass is only half full.

The message is the glass is half full, … The drugs work but they are not satisfactory to many patients, and three-quarters of the people in our study voted with their feet and discontinued the...

When it comes to the treatment of patients with chronic schizophrenia, the glass is only half-full.