February 2026: Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial

Dr. Ian Kelleher (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) joins AJP Audio to discuss an emulated target trial looking at the prophylactic qualities of doxycycline, an antibiotic, in an adolescent population at risk to develop schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin joins the podcast to put the rest of the issue into context. 00:53 Doxycycline and the risk of developing schizophrenia 04:03 Emulated target trials versus randomized control trials 06:43 Methods of action 09:24 Dosage and exposure levels for doxycycline 10:15 Immediate clinical applications 10:56 Limitations of the study 11:33 Future research 12:43 Kalin interview 13:00 Lång et al. 19:43 Zhao et al. 25:20 Metrik et al. Transcript Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.

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February 2026: Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial is an episode from American Journal of Psychiatry Audio by American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

This episode is 29:58 long.

This episode was published on Feb 1, 2026.

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