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antipsychotic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Examples of antipsychotic
antipsychotic
I wish doctors would be more careful when prescribing antipsychotic medications.
From the stltoday.com
He takes Risperidal, an antipsychotic medication, and Celexa, an antidepressant.
From the orlandosentinel.com
His son was drowned in a bathtub after the baby was fed antipsychotic medicine.
From the dailyherald.com
I responded to the antipsychotic medication I was given within a couple of weeks.
From the express.co.uk
Treatments include antipsychotic medications and various psychosocial treatments.
From the sciencedaily.com
Replace your atypical antipsychotic with an older, first-generation antipsychotic.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
He prescribed antipsychotic medication, and Williamson stopped hearing voices.
From the time.com
Discharged to a GP for regular antipsychotic medication but failed to attend.
From the smh.com.au
All antipsychotic medications work by blocking the neurotransmitter dopamine.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
- Major tranquilizer: tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired
- An antipsychotic (or neuroleptic) is a tranquilizing psychiatric medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions or hallucinations, as well as disordered thought), particularly in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ...
- (Antipsychotics) Medications that reduce the intensity of or eliminate hallucinations and delusions.
- (Antipsychotics) drugs used to treat severe mental disorders
- A class of medications developed to reduce the frequency and severity of psychotic episodes, which sometimes occur during mania or depression. Antipsychotics have also proved useful in treating mania and the psychoses that sometimes accompany depression and mania.
- A drug class that acts to reduce the core symptoms of psychosis, most usually schizophrenia. The prototype drug group are the phenothiazines (e.g. chlorpromazine). Syn. neuroleptic, antischizophrenic
- A medication (or another measure) that is believed to be effective in the treatment of psychosis.
- Antipsychotic medicines are used to treat schizophrenia, mania and bipolar disorder. For example, chlorpromazine.
- Drugs are the best treatment now available, but they do not cure schizophrenia or ensure that there will be no further psychotic episodes.
