The New Psychiatric Drugs.

The article offers information on the new approach in investigating the biochemistry of mental illness, which made use of drugs called chlorpromazine, reserpine, and Frenquel. The author has emphasized how these drugs are going to reduce the cost of caring for the mentally ill and decrease the number of mental patients in hospitals. He has also discussed the effects of the drugs on the brain's chemistry, emphasizing on the consequent changes in the hypothalamus. His discussion on how this development may led to finding other suitable drugs which can act on the neurohormones of the brain to counteract disturbances in the mind concludes the article.