Pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone as an adjunctive treatment in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: an 8-week, double-blind, randomized, controlled, 2-center, parallel-group trial.

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Published in J Clin Psychiatry on June 15, 2010

Authors

Michael S Ritsner1, Anatoly Gibel, Tatyana Shleifer, Igor Boguslavsky, Ahmad Zayed, Rachel Maayan, Abraham Weizman, Vladimir Lerner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. ritsner@sm.health.gov.il

Associated clinical trials:

Pregnenolone in the Management of Schizophrenia Patients | NCT00174889

Pregnenolone and L-theanine Augmentation in the Treatment for Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorders | NCT01831986

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