Drug Therapy
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- Created on: 11-11-17 12:51
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- Drug Therapy
- Evaluation
- P's who end up with extra-pyramidal (EP) side effects may need more medication or stop taking their anti-psychotics
- A study of 6,000 Ps. 64% on placebo relapsed and 27% on drugs relapsed
- Atypical result in less side effects and P's are more likely to carry on taking their medication
- Ethics - in the US someone suffered from Tardive Dyskinesia after taking typical meds received a settlement under the Human Rights Act
- They both seem have the same effect on symptoms but typical had (EP) effects and atypical had weight gain.
- People who take medication may be less likely to consider their stressors and they may not look for other solutions
- Anti-psychotics
- Typical
- An example is chlorpromazine which gets rid of the + symptoms
- Hallucinations and delusions subside after a few days but it can take a few weeks for improvement to be noticed
- They are antagonists and bind to but don't stimulate D2 receptors
- 60-75% of D2 receptors must be blocked by typical block receptors all over the brain
- These were developed in the 1950's
- This leads to a side effect called Tardive Dyskinesia
- Atypical
- They also benefit the - symptoms and cognitive impairment
- These carry a smaller risk of extra-pyramidal side effects
- These only temporarily occupy the D2 receptors to allow normal D production
- These were developed in the 1960's and 70's and an example is clozapine
- These block D2 and serotonin receptors
- Typical
- Evaluation
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