ABSTRACT
The pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia has been the central part of clinical practice of treatment of schizophrenia on a large scale. It would, therefore, seem possible to realistically assess the results and identify data in order to render this treatment more rational and effective. Drug therapy does not modify the prognosis and course of any mental pathology since it does not permit the reprocessing of mental data or favour the development of new functional networks. The use of drug therapy can, however, help create the conditions necessary for the initiation of a psychotherapeutic and rehabilitative work. The patient and family members are trained through psychotherapy to monitor the prodromal symptoms in a period of particular emotional overload; the therapist will register the exosomatic electrodermal activity during the weekly sessions. The drug seemed effective, not only on positive symptoms, but also on negative ones and did not cause excessive sedation or impair cognitive performance.
