CLINICAL USE OF RESERPINE IN PSYCHIATRY - COMPARISON WITH CHLORPROMAZINE
CLINICAL USE OF RESERPINE IN PSYCHIATRY - COMPARISON WITH CHLORPROMAZINE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1955.tb42463.x
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
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STOLL, WA
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作者:
BLEULER, M;STOLL, WA
Reserpine and chlorpromazine (3 chloro-10-(3''dimethyl-aminopropyl)-phenothiazine) treatments produce similar effects in severe psychiatric hospital patients. They relax and soothe patients, make them better-balanced, and allow them to recover from ill health. Reserpine and chlorpromazine are as efficient and less dangerous than extended narcosis, insulin, or electroshock therapies. Advantages that reserpine has over chlorpromazine are that it causes less painful infiltrates after intramuscular injections, and that it probably causes less damage to the liver. Chlorpromazine has the advantage that it less frequently leads to Parkinson symptoms. There are areas in the treatment of schizophrenia in which both reserpine and chlorpromazine can achieve, with less danger, the same results as the older physical treatments: in the treatment of preacute, short-lasting schizophrenic or schizophrenic-like psychosis, for example, and in treating severe chronic schizophrenics. Curable schizophrenics having a slow tendency to cure, however, appear, on the average, to react more favorably to insulin therapy than to chlorpromazine or reserpine. Reserpine and chlorpromazine are also indicated in cases of manic-depressive psychosis, in organic and psycho-genic states of excitation and, probably, in choreic cases as well.