A large percentage of the international population is affected with some sort of psychotic disorder if left undiagnosed and untreated could result in injury to the person with the disorder and/or to people associated and/or close to the person with the disorder. Diagnosis of a psychological disorder can often take time to properly diagnose with only a handful of approved drugs available to treat such disorders once they are diagnosed. Also, conventional methods of determining the anti-psychotic properties of a candidate agent are often times consuming and costly. Very few new candidates that are totally different from existing drugs ever make it to the discovery stage because of a lack of money when this stage is reached. In 2005 a NIH-funded study found treatments with contemporary antipsychotics were no more effective than with drugs that were introduced up to 40 years ago. In the brain, cognitive representations of external stimuli and thought (

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