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KimWrice

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Once their symptoms are in remission with antipsychotic drug treatment, if some schizophrenic patients are maintained on their medication and others have their medication discontinued,
 
  it is likely that the percentage of patients in the two groups that show symptom relapse will be approximately the same after
  a. 10 months b. one year c. two years d. none of these

Question 2

Risperidone (Risperdal), at low, clinically effective doses differs from conventional antipsychotics primarily in terms of their
 
  a. degree of extrapyramidal motor disturbances induced
  b. efficacy in reducing the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
  c. efficacy in reducing the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
  d. only a and b above



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

d



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