The First Antipsychotic Medications

question 30

Multiple Choice

The first antipsychotic medications:

• A)effectively reduced apathy, social withdrawal, and other so-called negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
• B)resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of people hospitalized for schizophrenia.
• C)effectively reduced hallucinations, delusions, and other so-called positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
• D)proved to be physically addictive and were withdrawn from use by the early 1960s.

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