6 Quotes by Jeffrey Lieberman

When it comes to the treatment of patients with chronic schizophrenia, the glass is only half-full.

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, ... But it's also clear that we need new treatments.

The study demonstrated that these medicines are effective, but that doctors and patients are looking for more. The medicines didn't completely alleviate symptoms or enable the majority of the patients to experience a complete recovery.

Probably the biggest surprise of all was that the older medication produced about as good an effect as the newer medications, three of them anyway, and did not produce neurological side effects at greater rates than any of the other drugs,

These treatments are effective--there's no doubt about that. But the glass is only half full.

The differences observed are not in and of themselves outside the range of variation seen in the normal population.