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OPEN LABEL TREATMENT OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER USING MIFEPRISTONE

$602M01FY2000RRNIH

Stanford University, Stanford CA

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Abstract

This study uses the glucocorticoid-receptor antagonist RU486 (mifepristone) to treat patients with a diagnosis of psychotic major depression or schizoaffective disorder. This is a follow-up treatment step (or, "compassionate use" study) for our current mifepristone-use protocols ("Treatment of Schizoaffective Disorder Using Mifepristone" GCRC #537 and "Rapid Reversal of Psychotic Depression Using Mifepristone" GCRC #484). It is a non-randomized study providing short-term pharmaco- therapy and measuring effects over an eight-day treatment period. Clinicals were begun in mid-1998 and continue. We have collected data on 2 patients with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder.

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