2 The antipsychotic drugs developed over the subsequent 20 years—termed first-generation or typical antipsychotics—were selected on the basis of their similarity to chlorpromazine, and ...

Amitriptyline and maprotiline were the drugs most commonly implicated in these cases. Typical antipsychotics are recognized as having a greater risk of Q-Tc interval prolongation than are atypical ...

Atypical antipsychotic drugs are less likely to induce neurologic side effects compared with typical (conventional) antipsychotics, such as haloperidol. Some recent, large-scale studies have shown ...