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Tiapride with senile psychoses. The effect on negative symptoms of schizophrenia


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E.E.Bukatina, I.V.Grigoriyeva and O.R.Smirnov

European Neuropsychopharmacology – 1994. V.4, №3. p.389

Tiapride was used in an open non-controlled study of 31 patients aged 54-88 (average age 70.1) with anxiety, excitement, delusion and hallucinations, asthenic a negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Nineteen patients suffered from schizophrenia, two from circular psychosis, and 10 from dementias of old age. The daily dose of tiapride was 01.-0.6, and duration of therapy from 1 to 92 days, on average 26.2 days.
Ten patients with schizophrenia with duration of disease of 13-41 years had severe negative symptoms that were observed during 8-20 years.  Against the background of treatment with tiapride five of them were observed to have a decrease of autism, aspontaneity and inadequacy.  With two patients with extremely severe negative symptoms the improvement was noted on days 5 and 6 of treatment and showed in that the patients began to fix their eyes on the interviewer, answer questions, and display some interest in the conversation. Afterwards one of them began to talk a little about himself, came for medicine without assistance. In three other milder cases the therapeutic effect was more obvious. The patient became more amiable, open, syntonous and sociable. Their behavior became more adequate.  They began to help the staff and weak patients both in answer to corresponding requests and on their own initiative. The first signs of improvement in these cases were observed on days 9, 14 and 30 of therapy. These patients took tiapride not less than 2 months and during the whole period of therapy a further extension of the achieved effect was observed.
A positive effect of tiapride was found on asthenic symptoms and, as in other studies, on hyperkinesis, especially oral ones up the full disappearance of the latter.

Tiapride led to a severe intensification of alarm on the same or the next day with all three patients that had these symptoms also intensification of delusions, hallucinations and psychomotor excitation was noted.  The latter appeared with a patient suffering from schizophrenia, in which a decrease of profound negative symptoms took place, causing the withdrawal of tiapride. Alarm, excitation, delusions and hallucinations appeared also in patients in whom these symptoms were absent at the beginning of therapy but had been there in the disease pattern earlier. The state of the patients returned to the initial level after withdrawal of tiapride.







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