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Antipsychotic drugs indicates:

Antipsychotic drugs indicates: Correct Answer Schizophrenia

Concept:-

  • Antipsychotic drugs are also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers are a class of medications primarily used to manage psychosis principally in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
  • First-generation antipsychotics known as typical antipsychotics were discovered in the 1950s.
  • Second-generation drugs known as atypical antipsychotics, first atypical antipsychotics were discovered in the 1960s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

Side effects of the antipsychotic drugs:

  • Dry mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Weight gain that can lead to diabetes
  • Blurred vision
  • Sedation
  • Loss of menstrual periods

Explanation:-

  • Schizophrenia: a disorder that affects a person’s ability to think, feel and behave clearly.

Symptoms:

  • Delusions: These are false beliefs that are not based on reality.
  • Hallucinations: These usually involve seeing or hearing things that don't exist.
  • Disorganized thinking.
  • Extremely disorganized or abnormal motor behavior.

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