Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental disorder that can be managed only with lifetime use of antipsychotics that help relieve but do not eliminate symptoms.

The drugs also produce side effects so severe that many patients stop taking them, frequently sending them spiraling into homelessness and poor health that can shave decades off their life expectancy.

Multiple schizophrenia subtypes further complicate medical management and require highly personalized doctoring, made even more difficult by the social milieux in which patients often find themselves.

First- and second-generation antipsychotics have been around for years. Third-generation medications began appearing in the early 2000s. They may be better at reducing symptoms of psychosis, such as hallucinations and delusio

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