Biological Treatment

Question 1

What are the main types of drug treatments?

for schizophrenia

Answer 1

• Typical
• Atypical

Question 2

How do drug therapies work?

Answer 2

• they follow the dopamine hypothesis
• they work by decreasing or increasing dopamine levels in order to reduce symptoms

Question 3

Describe typical antipsychotic.

Answer 3

• they are an antagonistic drugs that are taken 2-4 times a day
• this was discovered inh the 1950s
• an examnple of this is cholopromazine

Question 4

Describe atypical antipsychotic behaviour.

Answer 4

• this is a drug taken 2-4 times day
• this was discovered in 1990
• an exampe of this is clozapine and risperidone

Question 5

How do atypical antipsychotic drugs work?

Answer 5

• these temporarily bind to D2 receptors on the post synaptic neurone
• they also bind to dopamine receptors
• they then rapidly disassociate in order to allow a normal dopamine transmission
• this reduces positive and negative sympotoms

Question 6

How do typical antipsychotic drugs work?

Answer 6

• It binds to the D2 receptors on the post synaptic neurone
• This reduces the stimulation of the dopamine system
• this preventing hallucinations and delusions (positive symptoms)