>>12737630>eAppendix 3. Methods: Antipsychotic medication >To calculate the cumulative dosage of typical antipsychotic medication during the scanning
>interval, a table from the Dutch National Health Service was used to derive the haloperidol>equivalents2>. For atypical antipsychotic medication, the respective pharmaceutical companies>suggested conversion rates into haloperidol equivalents (clozapine, 40:1; olanzapine, 2.5:1;>risperidone, 1:1; sulpiride, 170:1; quetiapine, 50:1; and sertindole, 2:1). >eAppendix 9. Results: The effect of clinical confounders >The correlations between change in IQ and change in brain>measures in patients over time did not change materially after controlling for these factors, except>that the correlation between IQ change and change in LV showed a trend toward significance after>controlling for cumulative antipsychotic medication intake (p=.10).So basically you can't separate brain damage from the medications and the actual effects of any hypothetical underlying disease process ("cause"). Nothing new here. Not to mention not having access to a specific individual pre-schizophrenia to compare.
Hyped quasi-religious soience BS as usual. Come on Anon, you can do better.
