A number of medications are available to treat the involuntary movements of chorea, including diazepam for mild cases and haloperidol for more severe cases.
After psychoanalysis was discredited in the 1970s as a treatment for tic disorders, some doctors urged using such antipsychotic drugs as haloperidol (Haldol) to treat TS by suppressing the tics.
Antipsychotics include risperidone (Risperdal), haloperidol (Haldol), and chlorpromazine (Thorazine).
As of 2004, the most effective treatment of tics associated with Tourette syndrome involved the use of drugs such as haloperidol, pimozide, sulpiride, and tiapride, which decrease the amount of dopamine in the body.
Dopamine blocking drugs are frequently the first choice of treatment, Eg haloperidol chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, sulphiride and pimozide.
Episodes of mania are usually treated with antipsychotic medication (for example medicines such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol are used ).
Findings Most trials have compared the atypical antipsychotics with placebo or conventional drugs (e.g. haloperidol ).
Haloperidol to reduce anxiety and sleeping pills to help with sleep disturbance may also help, although these have not been formally studied.
Haloperidol to reduce anxiety and sleeping pills to help with sleeping pills to help with sleep disturbance may also help, although these have not been formally studied.
Neuroleptic-Another name for the older type of antipsychotic medications, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine, prescribed to treat psychotic conditions.
The patient was given haloperidol to try to manage their aggressive state.
They also showed in lab experiments that EPO blunted the toxic effects of the drug haloperidol on brain cells.
This group of drugs was originally developed to treat major psychoses (eg schizophrenia) and includes haloperidol and droperidol.