Paradoxical Improvement of Schizophrenic Symptoms by a Dopaminergic Agonist: An Example of Personalized Psychiatry in a Copy Number Variation-Carrying Patient.

Biol Psychiatry

Service Hospitalo Universitaire, Center for Cognitive Remediation and Rehabilitation, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Paris, France; Center for Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laboratory for Pathophysiology of Psychiatric Diseases-Institut de Psychiatrie, University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Inserm UMR 894, Paris, France. Electronic address:

Published: August 2016

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