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“neuroleptics”
“major tranquilizers”
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(“antipsychotics” are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in ‘schizophrenia’ + ‘bipolar disorder’)
(they are increasingly being used in the management of ‘non-psychotic disorders’)
(‘anti-psychotics’ are usually effective in relieving symptoms of ‘psychosis’ in the short term)
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(the long-term use of anti-psychotics is associated with side effects such as…)
‘involuntary movement disorders’
‘gynecomastia’
‘metabolic syndrome’
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(they are also associated with increased mortality in elderly people with ‘dementia’)
(first-generation antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics, were discovered in the 1950s)
(most second-generation drugs, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1960s and introduced clinically in the 1970s)
(both generations of medication tend to block receptors in the brain’s dopamine pathways, but atypicals tend to act on serotonin receptors as well)
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(‘neuroleptic’, which originates from the greek word νεῦρον neuron (“nerve”) and λῆψις lepsis (“seizure” or “fit”), is a reference to ‘neurological side effects’)
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