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... clozapine's effectiveness in approximately one - third of those patients who were unresponsive to tradi- tional antipsychotic medication ( 51,73,89 ) . The study also showed that clozapine can be used with relative safety , as long as ...
... clozapine's effectiveness in approximately one - third of those patients who were unresponsive to tradi- tional antipsychotic medication ( 51,73,89 ) . The study also showed that clozapine can be used with relative safety , as long as ...
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... clozapine (see text). The identification of these dopamine receptor subtypes has provided new insights into how more efficacious antipsychotic medications can be designed. Since clozapine is a highly effective antipsychotic drug but ...
... clozapine (see text). The identification of these dopamine receptor subtypes has provided new insights into how more efficacious antipsychotic medications can be designed. Since clozapine is a highly effective antipsychotic drug but ...
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... clozapine and the antide- pressant fluoxetine are examples of this new genera- tion of drugs. Clozapine, a so-called atypical anti- psychotic drug, not only blocks D 2 receptors but also acts on other dopamine receptors (see box 4-A) ...
... clozapine and the antide- pressant fluoxetine are examples of this new genera- tion of drugs. Clozapine, a so-called atypical anti- psychotic drug, not only blocks D 2 receptors but also acts on other dopamine receptors (see box 4-A) ...
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... clozapine. Anxiety: Commonly experienced apprehension, tension, or uneasiness from anticipation of danger, the ... Clozapine, Clozaril: A newer antipsychotic agent used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia in persons who do not respond to ...
... clozapine. Anxiety: Commonly experienced apprehension, tension, or uneasiness from anticipation of danger, the ... Clozapine, Clozaril: A newer antipsychotic agent used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia in persons who do not respond to ...
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schizophrenia ; it does not seem to produce tardive dyskinesia . Clozapine can result in agranulocytosis , a potentially fatal decrease in the number of white blood cells , which fight infection . See antipsychotic , tardive dyskinesia ...
schizophrenia ; it does not seem to produce tardive dyskinesia . Clozapine can result in agranulocytosis , a potentially fatal decrease in the number of white blood cells , which fight infection . See antipsychotic , tardive dyskinesia ...
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Page 55 - Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1 ) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
Page 64 - It cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and maintained the disturbance...
Page 55 - In children and adolescents, can be irritable mood. 2) markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day...
Page 55 - Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day 5 Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down) 6 Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day 7 Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-reproach or guilt about being sick...
Page 55 - The mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relationships with others, or to necessitate hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or there are psychotic features.
Page 9 - It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
Page 62 - B. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.
Page 54 - It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful...
Page 55 - During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (four if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree: 1 . Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity 2.
Page 55 - A. At least five of the following symptoms have been present during the same two-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either: 1) depressed mood, or 2) loss of interest or pleasure.