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2. Typical antipsychotic - Wikipedia

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   Bottle containing capsules of loxapine, a mid-potency typical antipsychotic. Typical antipsychotics (also known as major tranquilizers, and first generation antipsychotics) are a class of antipsychotic drugs first developed in the 1950s and used to treat psychosis (in particular, schizophrenia). Typical antipsychotics may also be used for the ...

3. Antipsychotic - Wikipedia

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   Applications of antipsychotic drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia include prophylaxis for those showing symptoms that suggest that they are at high risk of developing psychosis; treatment of first-episode psychosis; maintenance therapy (a form of prophylaxis, maintenance therapy aims to maintain therapeutic benefit and prevent symptom ...

4. Fluphenazine - Wikipedia

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   Fluphenazine, sold under the brand name Prolixin among others, is a high-potency typical antipsychotic medication. [2] It is used in the treatment of chronic psychoses such as schizophrenia, [2] [3] and appears to be about equal in effectiveness to low-potency antipsychotics like chlorpromazine. [4]

5. FDA approves 1st new drug for schizophrenia in more ... - AOL

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   Most schizophrenia medications, broadly known as antipsychotics, work by changing dopamine levels, a brain chemical that affects mood, motivation, and thinking, Kunovac explained.

6. FDA approves new type of schizophrenia drug - AOL

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   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved a new drug used for treating schizophrenia in adults, according to a press release. “This drug takes the first new approach to ...

7. Perphenazine - Wikipedia

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   Perphenazine is used to treat psychosis (e.g. in people with schizophrenia and the manic phases of bipolar disorder and OCD). Perphenazine effectively treats the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations and delusions, but its effectiveness in treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as flattened affect and poverty of speech, is unclear.