| 41. | In a psychiatric setting, patients who suffer from neuroleptic-induced akathisia often react by refusing treatment.
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| 42. | Like reserpine and tetrabenazine, oxypertine depletes catecholamines, though not serotonin, possibly underlying its neuroleptic efficacy.
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| 43. | While the injectable neuroleptics may cut the rate of relapse, psychiatrists say that other measures are also needed.
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| 44. | Drugs already used to treat schizophrenia, known as neuroleptics, work by blocking dopamine transmission in the brain.
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| 45. | This has not been shown to be directly related to the therapeutic use of stimulants, but to neuroleptics.
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| 46. | Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, or NMS, is a rare, but potentially fatal side effect of antipsychotic treatment.
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| 47. | Serious side effects include tardive dyskinesia, akathisia, low blood pressure and the potentially fatal neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
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| 48. | It is a potent and long-acting neuroleptic, used as an antipsychotic in the treatment of schizophrenia.
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| 49. | The question " should neuroleptics be used in dementia " however is both a social and a scientific question.
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| 50. | Advocates for people with schizophrenia also support the use of the injectable, or what physicians call depot, neuroleptics.
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