Psych drugs and brain injury, antipsychotics and brain shrinkage

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. Brain shrinkage or not, it's clear that psych drugs, in general, can negatively impact the brain in numerous ways. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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