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Status:
US Approved Rx (2015)
First approved in 1984

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Pimozide (Orap) is a diphenylbutylpiperidine that is effective as an antipsychotic agent and as an alternative to haloperidol for the suppression of vocal and motor tics in patients with Tourette syndrome. It is not intended as a treatment of first c...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2015)
First approved in 1974

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (RACEMIC)


Conditions:

Molindone (Moban) is a therapeutic antipsychotic, used in the treatment of schizophrenia. The exact mechanism has not been established, however, based on electroencephalogram (EEG) studies, molindone is thought to act by occupying (antagonizing) dopa...
Status:
US Approved Rx (1987)
First approved in 1967

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Haloperidol is a phenyl-piperidinyl-butyrophenone that is used primarily to treat schizophrenia and other psychoses. It is also used in schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorders, ballism, and Tourette syndrome (a drug of choice) and occasionally...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2019)
First approved in 1967

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Thiothixene (trade mark Navane) belongs to a class of antipsychotics known as the first-generation antipsychotics, sometimes referred to as conventional or typical antipsychotics. Thiothixene is a thioxanthene antipsychotic which elicits antipsychoti...