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Antipsychotics in plasma by LC/MS – (code LC83010) 100 test package.
INSIGHTS
Antipsychotics (or neuroleptics) are drugs that act on the psyche, used in the therapy of psychoses, especially delusional and hallucinatory ones. Antipsychotics are also used, if strictly necessary, in hallucinatory disorders and neuromotor agitation states of non-psychotic diseases, such as dementia and some temporal brain tumors, or some leukodystrophies. Neuroleptic drugs are the cornerstone of psychosis therapy, which metabolic and interneuronal alterations in the central nervous system. A characteristic of psychosis therapy is that in most cases it should not be interrupted. In spite of their sedative effects, neuroleptics are not administered to sedate the patient or to make him sleep, but to control disorders of behavior and ideation, while reducing agitation and aggressiveness. Patients develop tolerance to the sedative effects of neuroleptics over time.
Principle of the Method:
This method allows the determination of a number of antidepressant drugs : Quetiapine, Aripiprazole, Olanzapine, Risperidone, Haloperidol, Clozapine, Norclozapine, Paliperidone, Fluphenazine, Ziprasidone.
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