汕头大学医学院药理学精品课程 Antipsychotic Drugs.pptVIP

Antipsychotic Drugs Department of Pharmacology Zhang Yan-mei General View The most important types of psychosis are: Schizophrenia Affective disorders (e.g. depression, mania) Organic psychoses (mental disturbances caused by head injury, alcoholism, or other kinds of organic disease). General View Classification: anti-schizophrenic drugs (antipsychotic drugs or neuroleptics), antimanic drug, antidepressants or antianxiolytics. Pharmacologically, they are characterised as dopamine receptor antagonists, though many of them also act on other targets, particularly 5-HT receptors, which may contri