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CNS disorders
Drugs for Treatment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Schizophrenia | The most common type of psychosis, is an extensive disturbance of the patients personality function with lost of perception of reality. |
| Delusion or Paranoia | The impaired thinking of patients with schizophrenia. |
| Anxiety Disorders | anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, OCD |
| Electroconvulsive | Use for treatment of depression |
| Priapism (Painful Erection) | requires surgical intervention and leaves some patients permanently impotent. |
| Manic-depressive disorder | patients who exhibit alternating periods of depression and excitation, also known as bi polar depression |
| First-generation | antipsychotic agents were PRIMARILY dopamine antagonist. |
| Second-generation | agents have action at more than one receptor. |
| Clozapine | antipsychotic agent that is most sedative from the rest |
| Akinesia | Loss of voluntary movement |
| Akathisia | Inability to sit still |
| Tardive dyskinesia | Abnormal, involuntary movements |