The start of the era of modern psychopharmacology can be dated from 1949, with the
introduction of lithium carbonate in Melbourne, Australia, as a selective and effective …

ONCERN over psychotropic drugs is among the oldest and newest of civilization's
preoccupa-tions. At the dawn of civilization, in the ancient Middle East, alcoholic ferments …

The psychopharmacological era began in 1952, when chlorpromazine was, for the first time,
given to a psychiatric patient at Val-de-Grace, the famed military hospital in Paris (24). In the …

The treatment of mental illnesses, especially schizophrenia, has been dramatically changed
since the early 1950s when the phenothiazines, the first of the new psychoн pharmacologic …

Four neuv antipsychotic medications-clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine-
have been introduced in the United States during the past decade. These new medications …

Every so often in the history of medicine, events occur which in retrospect seem to mark a
defining moment. For psychiatry, the decade of the 1950s uses one such 'moment'. On 28 …

Modern clinical psychopharmacology can be dated from the introduction of lithium
carbonate to treat mania by John Cade in Australia in 1949 or from the introduction of …

Prior to the introduction of classic antipsychotic medications in the 1950s, treatment for
psychotic disorders primarily consisted of institutional confinement and supportive care with …

The history of pharmacotherapy of mental illness can be divided into three periods. 2.
Introduction of morphine, potassium bromide, chloral hydrate, hyoscine, paraldehyde, etc …

Ramachandraiah, et al.: The story of anti-psychotics: Past and present that produced by
chlorpromazine, after an initial state of excitation. First clinical studies were conducted by …