Current Antipsychotics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gross, Gerhard (Editor), Geyer, Mark A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 212
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Behavioral sciences.; Proteins.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Receptors.; Behavioral Sciences.

Six decades after the serendipitous discovery of chlorpromazine as an antipsychotic and four decades after the launch of clozapine, the first atypical or second generation antipsychotic, psychopharmacology has arrived at an important crossroad. It is clear that pharmacological research and pharmaceu...