Antipsychotics, particularly haloperidol, are the most commonly used drugs for delirium and the most studied.

* Antipsychotics such as haloperidol ( Haldol ), droperidol, pimozide, trifluoperazine, amisulpride, risperidone, aripiprazole ( Abilify ), ziprasidone and asenapine ( Saphris ).

* Antipsychotics, including haloperidol, thorazine, olanzapine, quetiapine and others

Antipsychotics might also be used to counter psychosis associated with a wide range of other diagnoses, such as psychotic depression.

Antipsychotics have also been increasingly used off-label in cases of dementia in older people, and for various disorders and difficulties in children and teenagers.

Antipsychotics are sometimes used as part of compulsory treatment via inpatient ( hospital ) commitment or outpatient commitment.

Antipsychotics are not recommended for benzodiazepine withdrawal ( or other CNS depressant withdrawal states ) especially clozapine, olanzapine or low potency phenothiazines e. g. chlorpromazine as they lower the seizure threshold and can worsen withdrawal effects ; if used extreme caution is required.

Antipsychotics should be used with care as they can worsen catatonia and are the cause of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a dangerous condition that can mimic catatonia and requires immediate discontinuation of the antipsychotic.

Antipsychotics are drugs used to treat various symptoms of psychosis, such as those caused by psychotic disorders or schizophrenia.

Antipsychotics are also used as mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar disorder, even if no symptoms of psychosis are present.

Antipsychotics are not effective against dissociatives such as PCP, DXM and Ketamine, and should not be used if these drugs are involved.

Antipsychotics and other therapeutic drugs have been used with relative success.

Moreover high potential conventional antipsychotics like haloperidol may be associated with the highest risk followed by low potential neuroleptics thereafter risperidone and olanzapine.

Certain combinations of drugs resulting in drug interactions may contribute: decreasing the metabolism of a medication causing QT elongation such as clarithromycin ( Biaxin ) or haloperidol ( Haldol ), taken concomitantly with a specific cytochrome P450 inhibitor like fluoxetine ( Prozac ), cimetidine ( Tagamet ); foods like grapefruit will result in higher than normal doses of the medication responsible for the QT elongation.

* Dopamine receptor antagonists including typical antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine ( Thorazine ), fluphenazine ( Prolixin ), haloperidol ( Haldol ), loxapine ( Loxitane ), molindone ( Moban ), perphenazine ( Trilafon ), pimozide ( Orap ), thioridazine ( Mellaril ), thiothixene ( Navane ), and trifluoperazine ( Stelazine ), the atypical antipsychotics such as amisulpride ( Solian ), clozapine ( Clozaril ), olanzapine ( Zyprexa ), quetiapine ( Seroquel ), risperidone ( Risperdal ), sulpiride ( Dogmatil ), and ziprasidone ( Geodon ), and antiemetics like domperidone, metoclopramide ( Reglan ), and prochlorperazine ( Compazine ), among others, which are used in the treatment of schizophrenia ( SCZ ) and bipolar disorder ( BD ) as antipsychotics, and nausea and vomiting.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Then he looked at his finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick nail he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open.

This machine, like its milling counterpart, was the antecedent of a machine-family used to this very day in precision metalworking shops throughout the world.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, `` This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there ''.

He never used to like any hot cereal, now that's the only kind he wants.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

The United States offered to supply a complete set of propelling equipment like that used in the Skipjack.

Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

The quipu of the Incas was a system of knotted cords used to record numerical data, like advanced tally sticks – but not used to perform calculations.

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Gelignite was more stable, transportable and conveniently formed to fit into bored holes, like those used in drilling and mining, than the previously used compounds and was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success, though at a significant cost to his health.

Basic theories, such as arithmetic, real analysis and complex analysis are often introduced non-axiomatically, but implicitly or explicitly there is generally an assumption that the axioms being used are the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory with choice, abbreviated ZFC, or some very similar system of axiomatic set theory like Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, a conservative extension of ZFC.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

Others only used to follow their basic instincts like animals.

This type of dance was eventually replaced by the danzón, which was, like the habanera, much slower and more sedate.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Doomie is normally an affable and friendly creature, but due to the abnormal brain Beetlejuice gave him during his construction ( ala Frankenstein's monster ), Doomie transforms into a vicious " four-wheeled werewolf " type of monster in response to the presence of a Neitherworld dog near him, or to anger, fear, or the danger of his ' passengers ', somewhat like a vehicular Jekyll and Hyde ( correspondingly, even in his more sedate form he displays subtly dog-like traits such as panting, implying that he fills a pet-like role for Lydia and Beetlejuice ).

The gameplay is highly similar to the earlier games in the Resident Evil series, to the extent of being labelled a " clone " ; although there are some additions like a dart gun as a secondary weapon, used to sedate most enemies ( mainly, zombie-like " vampires ") and then sprinkle " white water " in them to restore their humanity, instead of simply killing all enemies that approach the player ( which can also be done ).