ABSTRACT
Despite neuroleptic treatment, and the recent advances in this, the outlook for the average patient with schizophrenia is bleak. Over the course of what is likely to be a normal lifespan, he or she will be prone to flare-ups of active psychotic symptoms, may eventually come to experience these continuously, and may develop enduring deficits which will prevent him or her from being able to live without some degree of care and supervision. In the face of pessimism and sometimes despair, any and every therapeutic avenue has been explored in schizophrenia.
