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Neurotoxický, neuroprotektivní či neuroplastický účinek antipsychotik?

Title in English Neurotoxic, neuroprotective, or neuroplastic effects of antipsychotics?
Authors

KAŠPÁREK Tomáš

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Česká a slovenská psychiatrie
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Psychiatry, sexuology
Keywords antipsychotics; neuropathology; schizophrenia; morphology
Description The key feature of the neuropathology of schizophrenia is the cortical thickness reduction due to the neuropil reduction of pyramidal neurons in II. and III. cortical layers. First-generation antipsychotics exert neurotoxic effect on brain morphology. The second generation of antipsychotics stimulates neuroplastic processes. There is, however, no evidence that they target the neuropathological changes in schizophrenia, that induced neuroplasticity in fact corrects the pathology of schizophrenia.
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