Antipsychotics
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- Created on: 06-10-17 10:22
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- Antipsychotics
- Atypical
- Dopamine and serotonin
- Minimises side effects
- Targets serotonin and dopamine
- Suppresses psychoses
- Improving mood
- Clozapine acts on serotonin and glutamine receptors
- Reduces depression and anxiety
- Improves cognitive functioning
- Is often used in those at high risk of suicide
- Safety
- Risperidone is safer than chlorpromazine
- Fewer deaths due to agranulocytosis
- Risperidone is more effective in smaller doses
- Dopamine and serotonin
- Typical
- Dopamine antagonists
- Act as antagonists in the dopamine system
- Aim to reduce the action of dopamine
- Strongly associated with the dopamine hypothesis
- Synapse activity
- Block dopamine receptors in synapses in the brain
- Reduces the action of dopamine
- Normalises neuro transmission in key areas of the brain
- Reduces positive symptoms
- Sedation
- Chlorpromazine has an effect on histamine receptors
- This leads to a sedation effect
- Used to calm anxious patients when they are first admitted to hospital
- Dopamine antagonists
- Atypical
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