First-generation antipsychotics, also known as typical antipsychotics, are dopamine receptor antagonists. This means they block dopamine receptors to reduce the action of dopamine in the brain.

FGAs were developed in the 1950s. SGAs came later, in the 1980s. First-generation antipsychotics are also called typical antipsychotics. They mostly block your dopamine receptors to help with ...

Atypical antipsychotic drugs are less likely to induce neurologic side effects compared with typical (conventional) antipsychotics, such as haloperidol. Some recent, large-scale studies have shown ...

Background: There is an ongoing debate over whether atypical antipsychotics are more effective than typical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia. This naturalistic study compares ...

Antipsychotic drugs are classified into two categories: typical and atypical. Typical antipsychotics are older medications that are effective but have more side effects, while atypical ...

They explained that although some studies have indicated a higher risk of death with typical antipsychotics, other data have suggested antipsychotic medications (APMs) carry just as high risks for ...

Currently, it’s unknown whether one antipsychotic medication is more likely to cause TD over another. There’s also a higher risk of developing TD when using typical antipsychotic medications ...

Overview: Thiothixene is used to treat schizophrenia. It belongs to a group of medicines called first-generation (typical) antipsychotics. Common side effects include blurred vision, constipation ...

The most common atypical antipsychotics were quetiapine, aripiprazole and olanzapine and the most common typical antipsychotics were chlorpromazine, dixyrazine (in Nordic countries only ...

The typical presentation of neuroleptic malignant ... with rigidity or dystonia develop in 30% of patients exposed to antipsychotic agents, 22 and these findings may be mistaken for incipient ...