TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1986//
TI  - Acute and chronic toxicity of psychotropic drugs
JO  - Schweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie
A1  - Bickel, M. H.
SP  - 106
EP  - 109
VL  - 137
IS  - 5
N2  - Within psychotropic drugs acute toxicity is highest in antidepressants (thymoleptics, MAO-inhibitors, lithium), lower in neuroleptics, and very low in anxiolytics. The order of decreasing chronic toxicity is: neuroleptics, antidepressants, anxiolytics. Each class of psychotropic drugs has a specific toxicological problem. With anxiolytics the major problems stem from their misuse and overuse. With neuroleptics tardive dyskinesia is a serious threat to longterm therapy. Finally, antidepressants are characterized by a low therapeutic index and a resulting high incidence of severe and fatal poisoning cases, both intentional and accidental.<p />  <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0258-7661
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -