Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs and Ethanol Withdrawal Syndrome: A Review

• Published in: Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford) Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 33 - 41
• Main Author: Uzbay, Tayfun I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Alcoholism; Alcoholism - drug therapy; Alcoholism - physiopathology; Alcoholism and acute alcohol poisoning; Animals; Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use; Antipsychotic drugs; Biological and medical sciences; Clozapine; Diets; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethanol; Ethanol - administration & dosage; Ethyl alcohol; gait; Humans; Medical sciences; Neuroleptics; Olanzapine; Posture; Psychosis; quetiapine; Rats; Reviews; Risperidone; Seizures; Stereotyped behavior; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - drug therapy; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - physiopathology; Toxicology; tremor; Withdrawal; ziprasidone; Drug; Alcoholic beverage; Atypical antipsychotic; Ethanol; Psychotropic; Review; Withdrawal syndrome; Bibliographic review
• ISSN: 0735-0414; 1464-3502; 1464-3502
• DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agr142

Aims: Alcoholism and psychosis are known to have common neurochemical substrates. The aim of this review is to assess the reports involved in the effects of some atypical antipsychotic agents on the signs of ethanol withdrawal syndrome (EWS) in rats. Thus, both effectiveness of these drugs in ethano...