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Comparing antipsychotics: A rose by any other name?
Author(s) -
Price Lawrence H.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30498
Subject(s) - clozapine , rose (mathematics) , medicine , dopamine , psychology , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , neuroscience , mathematics , geometry
Are all antipsychotics pretty much alike? Sure, there are differences in side effects, and big differences in costs, and then there's clozapine. But at the end of the day, they all do basically the same thing, which is to alter dopamine neurotransmission. So, if you discount the claims of their respective manufacturers, is there anything that really sets them apart from one another?