ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS -Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs

Called NEUROLEPTICS/MAJOR TANQUILIZER

Schizophrenia

delusion,hallucination, thinking or speech disturbance

First –Generation Antipsychotics/Conventional/typical/Traditional
Antipsychotics

Competitive inhibitor of various receptor....Block D2 receptor..

Second-Generation Antipsychotics/Atypical Antipsychotics

Have less Extra-Pyramidal effects than First-generation...more Efficacious..

MOA
block Dopamine receptor in the Brain..Block Serotonin receptor 5-HT in brain..
Refractory Patients= 20% patients do not responds First & Sec generation drugs.
.Clozapine effective but have side effect of Bone marrow suppression & CVS side effect
Actions
Antipsychotic actions; reduce hallucination & delusions with
Schizophrenia(+Vesymptoms)....
-Ve symptoms; Anhedolia (not getting pleasure from normal stimuli), Apathy, Impaired
attention
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Extra-Pyramidal Effects
 Dystonia (Sustained contraction of muscles), Akathisia
(motor restlessness), Tardive Dyskinesia(involuntary movement of
tongue,lips,neck,trunk,limbs)
Antiemetic, Anticholinergic..all these due to blockade of D2 receptor..Prolactin elevation
with sec-generation, sexual dysfunction
T.E:
 treatment of Schizophrenia...prevention of drug-induced nausea...
Chlorpromazine used to treat hiccups........... Promethazine treat Pruritis...
Pimozide treat “Tourette disorder”.. Risperidone & Haloperidol treat “Tic disorder”
S.E:
Extra-pyramidal, Anticholinergic, Galactorrhea, Amenorrhea, infertility, Impotence
Cautions & Precautions= in seizure Patients, Agranulocytosis with Clozapine limit its use,

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