Broader Role for Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia—A Malaysian Case Series
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50307#.VDXf_FfHRK0 Author(s) Benedict Francis 1 , Stephen Thevananthan Jambunathan 1,2 , Subash Kumar Pillai 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Psychiatry, University Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . 2 The Mind Faculty, Solaris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . ABSTRACT Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia have been considered to be variants of the same disorder. At the advent of psychiatry, there was a distinction between neurotic, mood disorders and psychotic disorders. As perceptions and thoughts evolve in this dynamic field, there has been a paradigm shift in the way these disorders are being perceived. Of particular interest...