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Adjective
/ˌantēsīˈkätik/,/ˌantī-/,
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(chiefly of a drug) Used to treat psychotic disorders,
  1. (chiefly of a drug) Used to treat psychotic disorders

Noun
  1. An antipsychotic drug

  1. major tranquilizer: tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired
  2. An antipsychotic (or neuroleptic) is a tranquilizing psychiatric medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions or hallucinations, as well as disordered thought), particularly in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ...
  3. (Antipsychotics) Medications that reduce the intensity of or eliminate hallucinations and delusions.
  4. (Antipsychotics) drugs used to treat severe mental disorders
  5. (Antipsychotics) Antispychotic medications act against symptoms of anti-social or self-destructive behavior.  These medications cannot 'cure,' but they may lessen the severity of some symptoms.  A fuller discussion of antipsychotic medications can be found at the National Institute of Mental Health.
  6. A class of medications developed to reduce the frequency and severity of psychotic episodes, which sometimes occur during mania or depression. Antipsychotics have also proved useful in treating mania and the psychoses that sometimes accompany depression and mania.
  7. A drug class that acts to reduce the core symptoms of psychosis, most usually schizophrenia. The prototype drug group are the phenothiazines (e.g. chlorpromazine). Syn. neuroleptic, antischizophrenic
  8. A medication (or another measure) that is believed to be effective in the treatment of psychosis.
  9. Antipsychotic medicines are used to treat schizophrenia, mania and bipolar disorder. For example, chlorpromazine.
  10. drugs are the best treatment now available, but they do not cure schizophrenia or ensure that there will be no further psychotic episodes.