In psychiatry like in any other medical discipline, numerous clinical investigations of medications have been conducted throughout many years. New methods of fighting against all diseases have been searched. This work is required to provide the right selection of the exact drug for the patient, therefore development of various medications for various diseases of different people is very important. For this reason numerous classifications of psychotropic drugs for providing the doctors with certain recommendations in drug selection have been designed.
However, there are the medications actively used in psychiatry for mental disorders treatment. This is a new group of atypical antipsychotic agents, and Seroquel is related to it.
Seroquel chemically is derivative of dibenzotiazepine and by structure it is similar to clozapine. However, pharmacologically the drug differs by multireceptor interaction with a number of neuroreceptors that probably causes various aspects of its clinical effect. Seroquel is characterized by high efficiency in treatment of many symptoms of this disease. At the same time it causes fewer adverse side-effects inherent to other medications of the former generation that made the patients discontinue drug use. There are enough published works confirmed Seroquel efficiency and tolerance according to numerous clinical researches. So, during clinical investigations of the drug affecting the affective symptomatology including depression, sense of guilt, anxiety and stress, aggression and animosities, the drug has shown its excellent effect. Seroquel efficacy after the termination of the treatment course was at the top leading to good values.