Clozapine monotherapy for catatonic schizophrenia: should clozapine be the treatment of choice, with catatonia rather than psychosis as the main therapeutic index?

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Serdar Murat Dursun et al. J Psychopharmacol. 2005 Jul.

. 2005 Jul;19(4):432-3.

doi: 10.1177/0269881105053313.

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