Previous research has suggested that high doses of conventional neuroleptics may induce neurocognitive deficits when assessed with standard tasks. However, little is known about the effects of high doses of neuroleptics (conventional or atypical) on subjective cognitive dysfunction. Recent research stresses the putative importance of self-reported cognitive deficits for both symptomatic outcome...

For years, it has been known that neuroleptics have the capacity to interfere with the mitochondrial respiratory chain in vitro. We report that haloperidol and fluphenazine, classical neuroleptics, cause a generalized reduction in the activity of NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) in the rat brain in vivo, an effect that was not observed with the atypical neuroleptic, clozapine. MPTP, ...

Studies on the treatments for neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia published in the English literature until August 1978 are reviewed. There is a yet no single satisfactory method of treatment for tardive dyskinesia. Withdrawal of neuroleptics results in a remission of symptoms in younger and non-brain-damaged patients. Paradoxically, the most effective treatment for suppressing dyskinesia is...

OBJECTIVE To examine the efficacy of atypical neuroleptics for decreasing craving and drug relapses during protracted withdrawal in individuals dually diagnosed with schizophrenia and cocaine dependence. METHOD We conducted a 6-week, open-label pilot study comparing risperidone with typical neuroleptics in a sample of withdrawn cocaine-dependent schizophrenia patients. RESULTS Preliminary r...