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1. Akathisia from neuroeptic... can we switch to clozapin, olanzapen or Quetiapine or totally stop antipscy.
2. Tardive dyskinesia.. same query..
3. First line of medicine for schizophrenia.. Haloperidol or Risperidone or something else.
4. Schizophrenia with insomnia.. drug
5. Obese schizophrenic.. drug,
4. quetiapine
??
1 the treatment is b bloker
2 clozapine 3 respridone 4 lorazipine
quetiapine works on h-1 so it has sedative effect and can be used in schizo with insomnia my 2 cents