High dose antipsychotic treatment monitoring audit
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High-dose antipsychotic medication.
The dopamine hypothesis for the mode of action of antipsychotic drugs has been with us for some 30 years and has, by and large, withstood the test of time. It simply states that antipsychotic drugs owe their therapeutic effects to an ability to block central dopamine receptors. This has given us a working and testable explanation for the effects of these drugs and it has prompted the synthesis ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BJPsych Open
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2056-4724
DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2021.912