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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 treatment of acute mania, agitation, and other conditions.
1.1.1 Typical antipsychotics. 1.1.2 Atypical antipsychotics. ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item;
Saphris – atypical antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; Serax – anti-anxiety medication of the benzodiazepine class, often used to help during detoxification from alcohol or other addictive substances; Serentil (mesoridazine) – an antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia [1]
8.1 Typical antipsychotics. 8.1.1 Low potency. 8.1.2 Medium potency. 8.1.3 High potency. ... Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item;
The drug is sometimes described as a typical antipsychotic, [5] and sometimes described as an atypical antipsychotic. [6] Chemically, molindone is an indole and is structurally distinct from many other antipsychotics. [2] Molindone was first described by 1966 [7] and was introduced for medical use in 1974. [8] It remains marketed only in the ...
Bottle containing loxapine capsules, a mid-potency antipsychotic. Loxapine, sold under the brand names Loxitane and Adasuve (inhalation only) among others, is a tricyclic [4] antipsychotic medication used primarily in the treatment of schizophrenia. The medicine is a member of the dibenzoxazepine class and structurally very similar to clozapine.
As haloperidol is a high-potency typical antipsychotic, it tends to produce significant extrapyramidal side effects. According to a 2013 meta-analysis of the comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs it was the most prone of the 15 for causing extrapyramidal side effects. [29]
Perphenazine is a typical antipsychotic medication of midrange or moderate potency (the 15-fold of a chlorpromazinedosage, also a typical antipsychotic medication). Compared with the highpotent typical antipsychotic drug haloperidol (50-fold), it despite is considered by some to have similar extralyramidalmotoric side-effects.