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Parent topics
- Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
- Psychosis [r]: A brain disorder characterized by severely distorted sensory perception. [e]
- Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
Subtopics
Atypical second-generation agents
- Olanzapine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quetiapine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Risperidone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aripiprazole [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ziprasidone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clozapine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Amisulpride [r]: Add brief definition or description
First generation
Phenothiazines
- Chlorpromazine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trifluoperazine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Thiozathenes
Butyrophenone derivatives
- Haloperidol [r]: Dopamine antagonist mainly used to treat schizophrenia and some other psychoses [e]
Other related topics
- Dopamine [r]: A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. [e]
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome [r]: Hyperthermia in reaction to the use of neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs, accompanied by extrapyramidal and autonomic disturbances that may be fatal. [e]
- Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Serotonin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tardive dyskinesia [r]: Add brief definition or description
