antipsychotic
antipsychotic
Definition
anti·psychot·ic (an′tī sī kät′ik; -tē-, -tī-)
adjective
tranquilizing; neuroleptic
noun
an antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- receive: Fifty-four clients were receiving only one antipsychotic with the other five receiving two.
Preposition: for
- treatment: BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB launched an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia which is the first dopamine system stabilizer to be made available.
Adjective modifier
- atypical: There is no evidence to suggest the use of more than one atypical antipsychotic for any patients.
- typical: Chlorpromazine is the most commonly prescribed typical antipsychotic with 0.15 million items costing £ 559,000.
Modifies a noun
- medication: A depot preparation of an atypical antipsychotic medication seems the next logical step.
- drug: At the end of the 12 weeks all the patients in the placebo group needed to be placed on antipsychotic drugs.
- medicine: Antipsychotic medicines that are used to treat these diseases work by decreasing the activity of dopamine in the brain.
- agent: There is overwhelming evidence that conventional antipsychotic agents reduce the risk of relapse of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
- therapy: A 3 year, pan European, prospective, observational study of health outcomes associated with antipsychotic medication therapy in outpatients treated for schizophrenia.
- treatment: However, the team has now identified two genetic factors that strongly predict the severity of this weight gain due to antipsychotic drug treatment.
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