Antipsychotics: Brain Shrinkage ~~ Joanna Moncrieff revisits a very important issue...one of which has been discussed on Beyond Meds many times. I like to remind people that "antipsychotics" are really misnamed. They are a class of drugs called neuroleptics and quite often do not do anything at all to mitigate psychosis. They are major tranquilizers and neurotoxic drugs that harm and use should be minimized as much as possible.