Pharmacopsychiatry 2019; 52(01): 45-46
DOI: 10.1055/a-0755-7692
Letter to the Editor
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Studies of Half-Lives of Long-Acting Antipsychotics are Needed

Georgios Schoretsanitis
1   University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland, and Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, and JARA-Translational Brain Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
,
Alejandro G. Villasante-Tezanos
2   Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
,
Jose de Leon
3   Mental Health Research Center, Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, KY, USA Psychiatry and Neurosciences Research Group (CTS-549), Institute of Neurosciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, and Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health Net (CIBERSAM), Santiago Apóstol Hospital, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain
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Publication History

Publication Date:
22 October 2018 (online)

 
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