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Second-generation antipsychotics: discrepancies between licensed indications, evidence base and actual use

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The European Group for Research in Schizophrenia comprises: Istvan Bitter, Tom Burns, Michael Davidson, W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, Silvana Galderisi, Jes Gerlach, Rene Kahn, Jan Libiger, Juan Jose Lopez-Ibor, Dieter Naber, Manuel Paes de Sousa, Joseph Peuskens, Wulf Rössler and Goran Sedvall.

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Fleischhacker, W.W., the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia. Second-generation antipsychotics: discrepancies between licensed indications, evidence base and actual use. Psychopharmacology 169, 207–210 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-003-1496-9

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