Broad spectrum psychiatric drugs

The neuroleptics sulpiride and quetiapine are known as broad-spectrum psychopharmaceuticals . Both are effective for diseases from the schizophrenic group as well as for depression. The tranquilizer alprazolam also has a wide range of effects: It has both an anxiolytic and an antidepressant effect. The antidepressant opipramol has a moderate anxiolytic and antidepressant effect.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Hans-Bernd Rothenhäusler / Karl-Ludwig Täschner: Kompendium Praktische Psychiatrie: und Psychotherapie, Springer-Verlag, Vienna - Heidelberg - New York - Dordrecht - London 2013, pp. 9, 115, 136 and 531
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3. ↑ Cf. Matthias Dose: Blickpunkt Benzamide, Aesopus Vlg., Ettlingen 2003, p. 15ff
4. ↑ See Stiftung Warentest (ed.): Overcome Depressions, Stiftung Warentest, Berlin 1998, p. 123
5. ↑ See Josef Zehentbauer: Chemistry for the soul, two thousand and one, Frankfurt a. M. 1992, pp. 221f
6. ↑ See Hans-Peter Volz / Siegfried Kasper / Hans-Jürgen Möller: Casuistic articles on modern pharmacotherapy with quetiapine, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag (DUV), Wiesbaden 2004
7. ↑ See Peter Lehmann / Volkmar Aderhold / Marc Rufer / Josef Zehentbauer: New Antidepressants - Atypical Neuroleptics, Peter Lehmann Publishing, Berlin - Shrewsbury 2017, p. 75
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