Modern antipsychotic drugs: a critical overview

Modern antipsychotic drugs: a critical overview.

Conventional antipsychotic drugs, used for a half century to treat a range of major psychiatric disorders, are being replaced in clinical practice by modern "atypical" antipsychotics, including aripiprazole, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone and ziprasidone among others. As a class, the newer drugs have been promoted as being broadly clinically superior, but the evidence for this i...

Antipsychotic Drugs

The term psychosis refers to a variety of mental disorders characterized by one or more of the following symptoms: diminished and distorted capacity to process information and draw logical conclusions, hallucinations, delusions, incoherence or marked loosening of associations, catatonic or disorganized behavior, and aggression or violence. Antipsychotic drugs lessen these symptoms regardless of...

Franz von Baader’s Criticism of Modern Rationalism A Brief Overview

Antipsychotic drugs and hypothermia

Novel Antipsychotic Drugs

539 books, and those outside the field who need to look up terms related to medicine. While the scientific terms are not described at such a basic level to suggest a lay audience, there is a wide range of medically related issues referenced. This volume certainly has its own unique niche among reference books, but it is not, and cannot substitute for, a traditional dictionary. The field of schi...