Unlike traditional antipsychotic drugs, the newer atypical antipsychotic drugs
A) only need to be taken for two weeks to produce lasting symptom relief.
B) work on a smaller number of targeted dopamine synapses and also on serotonin synapses.
C) work to reduce the size of the enlarged neurons that cause schizophrenia.
D) work by reducing the enlarged ventricles causing the symptoms of schizophrenia.
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