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Is loxapine more effective than chlorpromazine in paranoid schizophrenia?

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.11.1411

The authors compared loxapine with chlorpromazine in inpatients with paranoid schizophrenia and found no difference in clinical efficacy. Thus a previous finding, based on retrospective analyses, that loxapine was superior to other neuroleptics in the treatment of paranoid schizophrenia was not verified in this prospective study.

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