Is there a cure for schizophrenia? (eBook / PDF)

About 1 % of the world population suffers from schizophrenia. Many treatment-forms have been applied on this mental illness; drug-treatment with atypical antipsychotics being one of them. This article addresses the question if atypical antipsychotics are an effective treatment for schizophrenia. Since they take away most symptoms of schizophrenia without causing serious side-effects, they seem to be a superior treatment compared to the formerly used neuroleptics.