The results of the BMJ Clinical Evidence review tend to indicate that as far as antipsychotic medication goes, current drugs are of some, if limited, efficacy in many patients, and that most drugs cause side effects in most patients. Although this is a rather downbeat conclusion, this will not be too surprising to clinicians in the field, given their clinical experience and our knowledge of the pharmacology of the available antipsychotic medication. Currently available antipsychotic medication has the same putative mechanism of action namely, dopaminergic antagonism with varying degrees of antagonism at other receptor sites that appear to modulate the.
