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Anabolic Steroids in Chronic Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. Tarlo ,
N. Zachariadis  and
V. Marks
V. Marks
Affiliation:
Area Laboratory West Park Hospital, Epsom
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Steroid treatment in mental illness seems generally in past trials to have produced variable results. Forrest, Drewery, Fotherby and Laverty (1960) failed, for example, to confirm the encouraging findings of Strauss et al. (1952) and Sands (1954) on the use of Dehydroepiandrosterone (Diandrone) in certain types of schizophrenia with personality defect.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 465 , March 1964 , pp. 287 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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