Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating mental disorders currently treated and affects 1.3% of the global population. As yet there is no cure for schizophrenia, however the symptoms can be successfully treated with a number of drug classes, although antipsychotics are currently the gold standard treatment for the disorder with the introduction of atypical neuroleptics in the last decade proving to be particularly effective. Treatment Algorithms 2001: Schizophrenia is based on extensive physician and opinion leader interviews that include details on presentation, diagnosis and evaluation of schizophrenia across the seven major pharmaceutical markets. It provides insight into treatment patterns for the symptoms of the disorder in acute, stabilization and maintenance stages, including a breakdown of drugs prescribed in successive lines of therapy. The report also provides physician scoring of the main antipsychotics prescribed in each country.
