Diagnosis of schizophrenia

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Patient is a 27-year-old male with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. He has been hospitalized three times in the past one year due to symptoms. When symptomatic, he becomes disorganized and paranoid. He will respond to auditory hallucinations. He will scream out at night after seeing a shadow in his room. He has delusions that the CIA is poisoning food and will not eat for multiple days. He has unintentionally hurt his mother after "slapping" food out of her hand, as he did not want her to ingest the "poisoned food." Symptoms are treated very well with paliperidone, but he struggles to remember to take it. Med List: paliperidone palmitate, clozapine, lamotrigine Determine which medication would be most appropriate to prescribe from the assigned medication list.

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