Antipsychotic drugs introduced over the past ... with a high affinity for the dopamine receptor type 2) drug haloperidol in 95 studies, and the low-potency drug chlorpromazine in 28 studies ...

The antipsychotic drug haloperidol is often used in emergency care to treat psychoses induced by methamphetamine, but a recently published animal study by Hatzipetros et al. warns that this ...

Antipsychotics can pose significant health risks for older adults. For instance, haloperidol (Haldol) is a sedative ...

"Neuroleptic malignant syndrome" (NMS) derives from the French "syndrome malin des neuroleptiques" and was first described in 1960 by Delay [1] and colleagues in association with haloperidol.

and compared to haloperidol with prophylactic anticholinergic treatment. When compared to perphenazine, a medium-potency typical antipsychotic, only clozapine and olanzapine had a consistently and ...

The most commonly prescribed antipsychotics were risperidone, quetiapine, haloperidol, and olanzapine, which together accounted for almost 80% of all prescriptions. Potentially influential factors ...