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Psychotropic drugs or drugs acting on mental functions are among the most widely prescribed in medicine, and the discovery of drugs with specific actions on mood and thought has been an important recent development which has revolutionized psychiatry. There are three main types of psychotropic drugs, the antipsychotics, the anxiolytics and the antidepressants.
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© 1981 P. J. Lewis
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Lewis, P. (1981). Psychotropic drugs. In: Essential Clinical Pharmacology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7243-1_13
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