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What does fluphenazine mean?

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Noun
  1. An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc
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They were treated with either continuous antipsychotic maintenance therapy or intermittent therapy using either haloperidol, chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, or fluphenazine.
Fluphenazine is a member of the phenothiazine drug family and is often used in the treatment of various psychoses, mainly schizophrenia and paranoid syndromes.
Fluphenazine is a piperazine phenothiazine that is structurally similar to perphenazine and prochlorperazine.
Haloperidol, chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, pericycline, prochlorperazine, and fluphenazine are incriminated, but thioridazine may be the worst.
The traditional neuroleptics pimozide, haloperidol, and fluphenazine are the only drugs with regulatory approval for Tourette syndrome.
Neurotoxicity has been reported when lithium is combined with haloperidol, thioridazine, chlorpromazine, and fluphenazine.

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