Medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Most current antipsychotics are dopamine receptor antagonists, but more recently introduced antipsychotics function as combined serotonin and dopamine antagonists.
A group of medications used to treat psychotic illnesses, first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Newer antipsychotics developed in the 1990s are known as atypicals and may have fewer side effects, such as movement disorders.
A group of drugs used in the treatment of certain psychic and emotional conditions, including psychosis.
Drugs that block dopamine receptors in the region of the brain that controls emotions and behavior. They are used to treat major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mania, and bipolar manic-depressive disorders. They can trigger reversible UI by causing anticholinergic action, sedation, rigidity, and immobility.
drugs used to treat severe mental disorders
Medications that block receptors in the brain of the chemical messenger dopamine, which is thought to play a role in schizophrenia; these medications have the most significant impact on the symptoms of hallucinations and delusions
Specific medications used in the treatment of mental illness, like schizophrenia. They are used, as the name suggests, to control psychotic symptoms like delusions and hallucinations.
