Varenicline Effects on Smoking, Cognition, and Psychiatric Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial.

UNLABELLED:Schizophrenic patients have a high rate of smoking and cognitive deficits which may be related to a decreased number or responsiveness of nicotinic receptors in their brains. Varenicline is a partial nicotinic agonist which is effective as an antismoking drug in cigarette smokers, althoug...

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Main Authors: Robert C Smith, Revital Amiaz, Tian-Mei Si, Lawrence Maayan, Hua Jin, Sylvia Boules, Henry Sershen, Chunbo Li, Juanjuan Ren, Yanhong Liu, Mary Youseff, Abel Lajtha, Alessandro Guidotti, Mark Weiser, John M Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4701439?pdf=render