Question

Post a response addressing the following question.

As a general rule, how does a physician decide which antipsychotic to prescribe for a particular patient?

Which drug is ‘best’?” Provide supporting evidence to support your answer (be sure and cite your source)

Identify major differences in typical and atypical antipsychotics.

Answer 1

Answer - Antipsychotic drugs prescribe for the patient who diagnosed with schizophrenia and symptom like delusions, Hallucinations, paranoia, thought disorder.

- It also use for treat patients with psychosis that occur in bipolar disorder, depression, alzheimer disease.

- Best antipsychotic and effective antipsychotic medicine is clozapine. It is having higher metabolic syndrome according to first of a kind study by University of Rochester medical center researchers.

- The major difference between typical most antipsychotic and atypical antipsychotic is that the typical antipsychotic use for positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as Hallucinations, aggression and delusions.

Atypical antipsychotics use for negative symptoms such as avolition, Apathy, alogia.