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NEUROLEPTIC

A term coined to refer to the effects on cognition and behaviour of antipsychotic drugs, which manufacture a state of apathy, lack of initiative and limited range of emotion and in psychotic patients reason a abbreviation in confusion and agitation and normalisation of psychomotor activity. Origin: Gr. Lepsis = a assume hold This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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