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Phenothiazines refer to a class of antipsychotic drugs that includes Chlorpromazine. Phenothiazines are drugs that reduce the functional level of dopamine in the brain and tend to reduce the symptoms of Schizophrenia.
Phenylketonuria refers to the inherited inability to metabolize phenylalanine, leading to mental retardation unless the afflicted person stays on a strict low-phenylalanine diet throughout childhood.
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Philippe Pinel (1745 - 1826) he is one among the first, in modern times, to view people with mental illness as sick people rather than criminals, beasts, or possessed individuals. In the Asylums of which he was in charge, Pinel ordered that patients be unchained and treated with kindness in a peaceful atmosphere. Pinel was also responsible for many innovations in the treatment and understanding of mental illness.