Schizophrenia

Looking For Adolescents With Schizophrenia

To participate in clinical research involving an investigational medication for schizophrenia

Principal Investigator: Kathleen McKenna, MD
Children’s Memorial Hospital

Eligibility requirements for participation:

• Males or females, ages 13-17 years old
• Diagnosed with Schizophrenia or displaying symptoms such as
• Hearing voices
• Bizarre thoughts or ideas
• Feeling confused or having trouble concentrating
• Withdrawing socially
• Feeling that people are “out to get them”
• No significant medical illness, including seizure disorders
• No history of neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• A responsible person must be available to accompany the adolescent to all visits, provide information and dispense study medication
  

Study participants will receive:

• Close monitoring of study medication safety and efficacy
• Hospitalization, comprehensive physical and psychiatric examinations, laboratory procedures, electrocardiograms (ECGs), and study medication at no charge

For more information, please contact:

Sneha Sastry, Research Coordinator
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(773) 880-4936
ssastry@childrensmemorial.org