Positive bipolar and schizophrenia data for asenapine

18 May 2008

US drug major Schering-Plough says that asenapine, a fast-dissolving, novel psychopharmacologic agent with a unique human receptor signature, was effective in two short-term bipolar mania studies with a nine-week extension and in two out of four short-term schizophrenia studies. According to data presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington DC.

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