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Psychotropic Drugs

Known as: psychotropic agents, Drugs, Psychoactive, psychoactive drug 
A loosely defined grouping of drugs that have effects on psychological function. Here the psychotropic agents include the antidepressive agents… 
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and behavioural disturbances and the use of psychotropic drugs in Norwegian nursing homes
Psychiatric and behavioural symptoms in dementia are associated with a range of negative outcomes, including institutional… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Social anxiety disorder
Summary Although social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling disorder that may occur in different cultural settings… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Effects of Psychotropic Drugs on Seizure Threshold
Psychotropic drugs, especially antidepressants and antipsychotics, may give rise to some concern in clinical practice because of… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Self reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study
Abstract Objectives: An association between use of cannabis in adolescence and subsequent risk of schizophrenia was previously… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Bridging the gap. The separate worlds of evidence-based medicine and patient-centered medicine.
Review
1996
Review
1996
Depression, psychotropic medication, and risk of myocardial infarction. Prospective data from the Baltimore ECA follow-up.
BACKGROUND There is suggestive evidence that depression increases risk of myocardial infarction (MI), but there are no… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Cloning and expression of a novel serotonin receptor with high affinity for tricyclic psychotropic drugs.
We have used the polymerase chain reaction technique to selectively amplify a guanine nucleotide-binding protein-coupled receptor… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Stages of progression in drug involvement from adolescence to adulthood: further evidence for the gateway theory.
Sequential stages of involvement in alcohol and/or cigarettes, marijuana, other illicit drugs and medically prescribed… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Central D2-dopamine receptor occupancy in schizophrenic patients treated with antipsychotic drugs.
Using positron emission tomography and the carbon 11-labeled ligand raclopride, central D2-dopamine receptor occupancy in the… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Patterns of drug use from adolescence to young adulthood: I. Periods of risk for initiation, continued use, and discontinuation.
Patterns of initiation, continued use, and decline in drug use are described on the basis of detailed drug histories in a… 
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