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Modest effect from modafinil, armodafinil on schizophrenia symptoms
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30028
Subject(s) - modafinil , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , randomized controlled trial , psychiatry
A meta‐analysis of eight randomized controlled trials has found an association between use of the psychostimulants modafinil or armodafinil and reduction of negative symptoms in schizophrenia, but the overall effect size was small and the outcome was no longer statistically significant when results of the only study to examine acutely ill patients were excluded.