Dialysis in Schizophrenia: A Double-Blind Evaluation
- 6 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4486), 1066-1068
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7466380
Abstract
Eight chronic schizophrenia patients completed a research program consisting of ten weekly sessions of active hemodialysis and ten weekly sessions of sham dialysis in a double-blind design. Previous reports of therapeutic efficacy were not substantiated. None of the patients improved during active dialysis; four patients worsened.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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