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Chapter: Clinical Pharmacology: Psychotropic drugs

Antipsychotic drugs

Antipsychotic drugs can control psychotic symptoms,such as delusions and hallucinations, and thought disor-ders that can occur with schizophrenia, mania, and other psychoses.

Antipsychotic drugs

Antipsychotic drugs can control psychotic symptoms,such as delusions and hallucinations, and thought disor-ders that can occur with schizophrenia, mania, and other psychoses.

By any other name

 

Drugs used to treat psychoses have several different names, in-cluding:

 

§    antipsychotic, because they can eliminate signs and symptoms of psychoses

 

§    major tranquilizer, because they can calm an agitated patient

 

§    neuroleptic, because they have an adverse neurobiologic effect that causes abnormal body movements.

 

Two major groups

 

Regardless of what they’re called, all antipsychotic drugs belong to one of two major groups:

 

·                 atypical antipsychotics, which include aripiprazole, cloza-pine, olanzapine, paliperidone, quetiapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone

 

·                 typical antipsychotics, which include phenothiazines and nonphenothiazines.

 

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