Active clinical trials for "Schizophrenia"

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of paliperidone palmitate and risperidone long acting injection (LAI) in participants with schizophrenia (psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, often with delusions and hallucinations, and withdrawal into the self) along with safety and tolerability.

The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that 1 or more dose levels of LY2140023 given orally to patients with schizophrenia twice daily for 4 weeks will have significantly greater effect than placebo.

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of 1.5 mg/day dose of paliperidone Extended Release (ER) as compared with placebo when used to treat patients with schizophrenia.

GSK1018921 is a new drug under development for the treatment of schizophrenia. GSK1018921 differs from other available drugs in its mode of action and it is assumed that it may have an effect in the treatment of so-called positive symptoms such as hallucinations and negative symptoms such as lack of drive. No clinical studies have been conducted with GSK1018921 in humans until now. This is the first study where this compound is administered to humans; the study has 2 parts: Part A is a dose escalation study, Part B is a pharmacodynamic portion in a separate group of healthy smoker volunteers.

This is an open label pre-post study of the effects of clinical treatment with varenicline on 1) decreasing smoking in schizophrenic patients, 2) improving selected cognitive measures in schizophrenic patients, and 3) psychopathology in schizophrenic patients. Patients are assessed on subjective and objective measures of smoking, selected cognitive measures, and special chemical measures, during baseline testing and during 8 weeks of treatment with varenicline (1-2 mg/day).

The present protocol proposes study of the recently approved compound sodium oxybate (Xyrem), a gamma-aminobutyric acid type b (GABAB) and a g-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) receptor agonist, for the study of persistent symptoms of schizophrenia. Sodium oxybate is a central nervous system depressant currently approved for treatment of narcolepsy associated with cataplexy and excessive daytime sleepiness. In addition to evaluating effects on sodium oxybate on persistent symptoms and neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia, the study will test the hypothesis that this medication may be particularly effective in combating Insomnia Related to Schizophrenia, and in normalizing symptomatic and polysomnographic manifestations of sleep-related brain dysfunction in schizophrenia.

The purpose of this research study is to find out what effects (good and bad) that omega-3 fatty acids has on schizophrenia.

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of folate and B12 supplementation in reducing negative symptoms in people with schizophrenia.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Intramuscular Levosulpiride in the treatment of Chinese patients with Agitation Of Schizophrenia compared with Intramuscular Haloperidol by evaluating the change of PANSS-EC total scores at end of study (72 hours after first dosing) from baseline.

The purpose of this study is to test the long-term safety and tolerability of oral aripiprazole in adolescent patients with schizophrenia.