For most patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features, typical and atypical antipsychotics (eg chlorpromazine, haloperidol) are of equal efficacy for treating positive symptoms (Feelings or behaviors that are usually not present such as hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, or smelling things that others do not experience ie hallucinations)
However, the atypical antipsychotics such as clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, resperidone, ziprasidone and aripiprazole possess some advantages over the older typical antipsychotics such as:
1. Newer antipsychotics have superior adverse effect profile. They produce no or minimal increases of prolactin that is associated with amenorrhea, galactorrhea, infertility and impotence; diminished risk . . .
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