Conditions: Schizophrenia Schizoaffective Disorder
Keywords: Lurasidone Schizophrenia Latuda
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 629
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Lurasidone HCl is a compound being developed for the treatment of schizophrenia. This clinical study is designed to test the hypothesis that lurasidone is safe and tolerable long term among clinically stable patients. The study will also assess the long term effectiveness of lurasidone as compared to an active comparator.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Lurasidone arm 2: Risperidone

Interventions: intervention 1: Lurasidone HCl intervention 2: Risperidone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 40 - 120mg per day intervention 2: Risperidone

Protocol document: