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When do doctors prescribe anti-psychotic drugs?

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Misnomer: What you call antipsychotic drugs is merely a way to adjust a brain chemical called Dopamine. This chemical mediates many different emotional states. Obviously one of these states is psychosis in any of its forms. It is also useful in some depressions.

Answered 1/13/2015

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