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.
Starting with physical and psychological side effects, 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.