Is there a cure for schizophrenia?

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2004 in the subject Psychology - Biological Psychology, grade: 8 = 2 (B), Maastricht University (Psychology Faculty), language: English, abstract: 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.