neuroleptic

Seroquel is a pretty hefty neuroleptic, with all of many adverse effects implied.

And just FYI, only old doctors call them neuroleptics anymore in practice - we just say antipsychotics.

I somehow got a neuroleptic disease from taking it called 'akinesia' which I can only describe as a living hell.

All of which is to say that the struggles of people on neuroleptic therapy are generally very different from what’s being discussed in the article here.

If you were committed by the state for mental health reasons, and in certain cases, forced to take neuroleptic drugs, some of which are injected, would you consider that tyranny?

In addition, there is no evidence that schizophrenics have any brain dysfunction other than that caused by taking neuroleptics for decades.

It was unfortunate that the psychiatrists refused to address the cause of her condition [by that point it was nerve damage from neuroleptics], but at least that guy got her off the street.

Was already scared that I'd become dependent on this, but atypical neuroleptics in low doses are less associated with tardive dyskinesia.

I don't understand why you are so negative towards preliminary findings that may point to a route of treatment that doesn't require neuroleptics, which as you correctly point out, can cause cognitive impairment.

This makes a sort of sense, but only if you know little about the drugs in question - antipsychotic drugs, formerly known as neuroleptics - which do not target nor act on any demonstrated pathology, lesion, or abnormality.

Whitaker doesn't do as extensive an analysis of antidepressants as he does neuroleptics, but this is fairly similar to a program he supports in Finland that uses neuroleptics in very limited doses for the worst cases of schizophrenia, but their focus is shifting patients into a supportive environment with therapy.