Neuroleptics

Neuroleptics, also known as antipsychotic medications, are used to treat symptoms of psychosis. Neuroleptic drugs became attributed to emptying out mental hospitals they were so effective. In actuality, mental hospital numbers were not reduced until almost ten years after neuroleptic medications were being administered, right at the time the federal government began to provide disability insurance coverage for mental disorders.

Neuroleptics are supposed to work by altering the neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters are the chemicals responsible for transmitting impulses down the nerves in the brain. By using neuroleptics it was believed that it could help stop certain impulses from being sent. It is thought that people with psychosis have a chemical imbalance and by using neuroleptics it can balance the chemicals out to a more “normal” level. For more information on various neuroleptics available on the market please refer to the list on this page.

Tardive Dyskinesia and the use of neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medication have been so controversial because the high number of neuroleptic medication choices and the many patients still unaware that there is a Tardive Dyskinesia risk. Despite the studies performed linking the use of neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia, there is still little known.

Many people in the psychiatric field have argued that while there are risks for every medication, the risks of Tardive Dyskinesia were outweighed by the benefits neuroleptics brought schizophrenia patients. Critics argue otherwise, believing that especially in patients with acute schizophrenia alternative psychosocial options may provide beneficial results without risks of Tardive Dyskinesia and other drug induced disorders.

For more information on neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia contact us to confer with a Tardive Dyskinesia lawyer.

• Thorazine
• Serentil
• Mellaril
• Permitil and Prolixin
• Trilafon
• Stelazine
• Taractan
• Navane
• Clozaril
• Haldol
• Loxitane
• Moban
• Zyprexa
• Orap
• Seroquel
• Risperdal
• Geodon
• Compazine
• Etrafon
• Triavil
• Reglan
• Inapsine
• Phenergan

For more information on neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia contact us to confer with a Tardive Dyskinesia lawyer.