Dr. Donald C. Goff, Marvin Stern professor of psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, gives an overview of a new combination drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of schizophrenia. It will be marketed as Cobenfy, and its component active ingredients are xanomeline and trospium chloride, representing the first non-dopaminergic antipsychotic approved by the FDA. Dr. Goff briefly explores the decades of pharmaceutical treatment of schizophrenia and lays out the steps toward developing the new combination drug. He offers details on next steps, treatment, more extensive trials of the new drug, related approaches, and refers listeners to his editorial for prescribing information.

His guest editorial, “At Last, a Nondopaminergic Agent for the Treatment of Schizophrenia: The Combination of Xanomeline and Trospium (Cobenfy),” is published in the March-April 2025 issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.