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ArticleClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology2020

A Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Asenapine versus Olanzapine in Management of Schizophrenia.

Arpita Maitra, Swati Bhattacharyya, Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay, Asim Kumar Mallick, Supreeti Biswas, Om Prakash Singh

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Article in Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Asenapine: an atypical antipsychotic with atypical formulations.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Arpita MaitraDepartment of Pharmacology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-0843
Swati BhattacharyyaDepartment of Pharmacology, RG Kar Medical College, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-3772
Sabyasachi MukhopadhyayDepartment of Neonatology, AMRI Hospital, Kolkata, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5794-0480
Asim Kumar MallickDepartment of Psychiatry, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6314-7470
Supreeti BiswasDepartment of Pharmacology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-0953
Om Prakash SinghDepartment of Psychiatry, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7672-3676
Burdwan Medical College & Hospital · INAMRI Hospitals · INR. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objective: Schizophrenia is a serious disease characterized by impairment in the perception or expression of reality, leading to occupational and social dysfunction. The use of antipsychotic medication is now universal in the first-line treatment of schizophrenia. This study was undertaken to compare the efficacy of asenapine with a standard atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine in treating this disease.

methodsIt was designed as a single blind, randomized, controlled, parallel group, single centre Phase IV trial of a newer atypical antipsychotic, asenapine versus existing standard atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine. Total 80 subjects were enrolled as per eligibility criteria.Each recruited subject received daily treatment with the trial medication (Olanzapine 10 mg or Asenapine 10 mg daily) for duration of 12 weeks. BPRS, CGI-S, CGI-I, Laboratory parameters and compliance was assessed and analyzed. Continuous variables were compared by t test and non-parametric data was analyzed by Mann-Whitney

resultsThe duration of schizophrenia at presentation was comparable in both the treatment groups. There was significant reduction of BPRS score between any two visits of each treatment groups. The decline in CGI-S and CGI-I scores was statistically significant (

conclusionNewer atypical antipsychotic asenapine is more effective than standard olanzapine in reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia in this study and further larger studies are to be done.

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AsenapineOlanzapine.PerceptionSchizophrenia

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