KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Agranulocytosis, Clozapine, Haloperidol
9 Oct 2017
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Helped people to not have to stay in hospital due to psychosis. For some however, first generation medicines (e. g. , haldol or chloropromazine) did not work or had terrible side-effects like tardive dyskinesia (movement disorder) Introduced second generation anti-psychotic medications (e. g. , clozapine) (1990s) Problem: clozapine agranulocytosis side-effect in 1% of cases, suppress the immune system, could cause death. 70% of women are on a diet. 80-90% of women dislike the shape or size of their bodies. Some young girls report being more afraid of becoming fat than they are of cancer, nuclear war, or losing their parents. A number of young people who have eating disorders use excessive exercise in order to control their weight and as a way of regulating negative emotional states. Life events (holmes & rahe, 1967) social readjustment rating scale. Arbitrarily set the middle 50 as marriage. Highest stress death of a spouse.
