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Conventional antipsychotics were the first drugs proven to effectively treat schizophrenia. They are also called classical, typical, or first-generation antipsychotics. The first, chlorpromazine, was discovered accidentally in the 1950s when an antihistamine showed antipsychotic effects in schizophrenia patients. Chlorpromazine and other conventional antipsychotics were found to cause a slowed motor movement state called "neurolepsis" in experimental animals. This effect, along with behavioral indifference,
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