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Very long term follow-up studies reveal multiple benefits in terms of reduced mortality, [18] [52] with a particularly strong effect for reduced death by suicide, clozapine is the only antipsychotic known to have an effect reducing the risk of suicide or attempted suicide. [53] Clozapine has a significant anti-aggressive effect.
In older people with psychosis as a result of dementia, it may increase the risk of death. [6] It is unclear if it is safe for use in pregnancy. [6] Chlorpromazine was developed in 1950 and was the first antipsychotic on the market. [7] [8] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
Another method is "defined daily dose" (DDD), which is the assumed average dose of an antipsychotic that an adult would receive during long-term treatment. [15] DDD is primarily used for comparing the utilization of antipsychotics (e.g. in an insurance claim database), rather than comparing therapeutic effects between antipsychotics. [15]
Celexa – an antidepressant of the SSRI class; Centrax – an anti-anxiety agent; Clozaril – atypical antipsychotic used to treat resistant schizophrenia; Concerta (methylphenidate) – an extended release form of methylphenidate
Dizziness is often reported as being the withdrawal symptom that lasts the longest. A study testing neuropsychological factors found psychophysiological markers differing from normals, and concluded that protracted withdrawal syndrome was a genuine iatrogenic condition caused by the long-term use. [126]
N-Desmethylclozapine (NDMC), or norclozapine, is a major active metabolite of the atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine. [1] [2]Unlike clozapine, it possesses intrinsic activity at the D 2 /D 3 receptors, and acts as a weak partial agonist at these sites similarly to aripiprazole and bifeprunox. [3]
Clozapine N-oxide (CNO) is a synthetic drug used mainly in biomedical research as a ligand to activate Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs), [1] despite the initial belief that it was biologically inert.
Tardive psychosis is a hypothetical form of psychosis caused by long-term use of neuroleptics. It was first proposed in 1978 but was questioned by the late 1980s. [1] [2] It was hypothesized that psychosis could arise as neuroleptic medication become decreasingly effective, requiring higher doses, or when not responding to higher doses.