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Haloperidol: A Controlled Clinical Trial in Chronic Disturbed Psychotic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. Okasha
Affiliation:
Scholar of Ain Shams University (Cairo) and Bexley Hospital
G. I. Tewfik
Affiliation:
Bexley Hospital

Extract

Haloperidol is a drug that fulfils Delay's criteria of a neuroleptic in that:

  1. 1. It inhibits psychomotor agitation without producing sleep.

  2. 2. Alleviates psychomotor manifestations.

  3. 3. Produces with increasing dosage characteristic extrapyramidal signs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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