[Clinical observations with aripiprazole in schizophrenia]

The atypical antipsychotic aripiprazole was administered once a day by peroral dose--10-15 mg--in 103 schizophrenics; they were hospitalized or in day-hospital or outpatient department. During the simple blind clinical trial it was compared by 70 schizophrenics administered by haloperidol treatment (9-15 mg/day dose). The aripiprazole had good therapeutic effect at the positive and negative symptoms of acute schizophrenia, and at the other antipsychotic non-responder patients, and had no serious side-effects. The hypothesis, that of aripiprazol had good effect on the mesolimbic dopamine system as dopamine antagonist, causes improvement on positive symptoms; also good effect on the mesocortical dopamine system as partial agonist, causes improvement on negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The patients had good compliance with aripiprazol.