haloperidol
IPA: hˈeɪɫoʊpˈɛrɪdɔɫ
noun
- (pharmacology) A synthetic antidepressant drug used chiefly in the treatment of psychotic conditions.
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Examples of "haloperidol" in Sentences
- The radioactive haloperidol bound to the tissue.
- Behavioral resistance to haloperidol and clozapine.
- On a weight basis it is even more potent than haloperidol.
- Thanks for the contribution over on the Haloperidol article.
- Others such as haloperidol and trifluoperazine soon followed.
- What's the proper dose of intravenous haloperidol, for instance
- Haloperidol is not devoid of potential psychological dependence.
- And thanks for fixing the spelling over on the Haloperidol article.
- For example, you state that most youths are on haloperidol or thorazine.
- Some older drugs, such as haloperidol and hyoscine remain inadequately studied.
- "Common psychiatric drugs, such as haloperidol, used to treat schizophrenia, are known to act on this gene," Dr Kwok said today.
- The most common treatment, in our pill-obsessed society, is an antipsychotic medication such haloperidol, pimozide, and risperidone.
- In prison, David had been force-fed enough haloperidol to make him uninterested in psychedelic experiences; but there was plenty of beer, and plenty of people drinking it.
- The excuse had been that South Hams Prison used chemical restraints on its violent prisoners—thioridazine, haloperidol, chlorpromazine—and that paranoid episodes were one of the common side effects.
- In this study, both an older neuroleptic (Haldol or "haloperidol") and a newer atypical neuroleptic (Zyprexa or "olanzapine") caused significant shrinkage in the higher level parts of the brains in monkeys.
- In trial 15, commissioned by AstraZeneca, patients with schizophrenia who were in remission were randomly assigned to receive either AstraZeneca's quetiapine, or a cheap, old-fashioned drug called haloperidol.
- Conventional antipsychotics, such as haloperidol (Haldol) and chlorpromazine (Thorazine), were stumbled on by chance in the 1950s and were found to have a powerful calming effect on psychotic patients, but also a number of side effects.
- This is a significant finding, as the medications used to treat tics, including clonidine and neuroleptics such as haloperidol and pimozide, can cause undesirable side effects, including drowsiness, dizziness, impaired thinking, insomnia, and blurred vision.
- The Washington Post article states, ... ldquo; Internal government records show that most sedated deportees, such as Ade, received a cocktail of three drugs that included Haldol, also known as haloperidol, a medication normally used to treat schizophrenia and other acute psychotic states.