History of the pharmacotherapeutic treatment options in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia: an often devastating disease. This book describes aspects from the history of antipsychotics, medicines that revolutionized the treatment of the disorder schizophrenia decisively, and whose further development is still ongoing. Antipsychotics (conventional/typical, atypical and a number of experimental drugs) as well as adjuvant therapies (Over-The-Counter medicines, prescription medicines and experimental medicines) are presented. Also, backgrounds of schizophrenia are discussed.