Clozapine is a tricyclic dibenzodiazepine, classified as an atypical antipsychotic agent. Clozapine displays affinity to various neuroreceptors with a particularly low affinity to the dopamine receptors, thus breaking the mold of first-generation antipsychotics and deeming it "atypical".. This low affinity to dopamine receptors results in fewer extrapyramida...
Clozapine is indicated for the treatment of severely ill patients with schizophrenia who fail to respond adequately to standard antipsychotic treatment. Because of the risks of severe neutropenia and of seizure associated with its use, Clozapine should be used only in patients who have failed to respond adequately to standard antipsychotic treatment.
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The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland
Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria "Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino", Turin, Italy
Ohio State University Harding Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
Mental Health Services Glostrup, Unit for Complicated Schizophrenia, Glostrup, Denmark
Augusta University Research Institute, Inc., Augusta, Georgia, United States
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Unidad de Salud Mental Comunitaria Andújar, Andújar, Spain
Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain
Hospital Universitario de Jerez, Jerez De La Frontera, Spain
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