Antipsychotic drugs: from 'major tranquilizers' to Neuroscience-based-Nomenclature

Spyridon Siafis¹, John M Davis^{2

3}, Stefan Leucht¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, School of Medicine, Technische Universität München, München, Germany.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA.
³ Illinois and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Comment

Spyridon Siafis et al. Psychol Med. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;51(3):522-524.

doi: 10.1017/S0033291719003957. Epub 2020 Jan 8.

Spyridon Siafis¹, John M Davis^{2

3}, Stefan Leucht¹

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, School of Medicine, Technische Universität München, München, Germany.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA.
³ Illinois and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Dopamine; nomenclature; receptor; schizophrenia; sedation.

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