Introduction

The purpose is to assist service users, carers and health and social care practitioners in achieving a fuller understanding of the impact of medication than is commonly taught in under-graduate and post-graduate university courses.

The Professional Mental Health Information Series is designed for professionals with downloadable pdf's. These are currently undergoing revision.

Starting with neuroleptic physical and psychological adverse drug reactions, I move on to an overview of how neuroleptics and the brain interact and how the various systems of the body are impacted, reasons are then offered for why specific neuroleptic side effects occur. However, like a jigsaw, to get the full picture, the information is better read and re-read in order that the pieces fit into place and make sense together.