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Simone Courvoisier was a French experimental pharmacologist who, while the head of pharmacology at Rhône-Poulenc in the 1950s, investigated the use of the antipsychotic medication chlorpromazine.[1][2] She discovered that the compound promazine had sedating properties despite not being an antihistamine like its precursor promethazine, and then extensively analyzed the properties of its descendant drug chlorpromazine.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Paul Charpentier, Henri-Marie Laborit, Simone Courvoisier, Jean Delay, and Pierre Deniker". Science History Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ↑ Ban, Thomas A. (August 2007). "Fifty years chlorpromazine: a historical perspective". Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 3 (4): 495–500. PMC 2655089. PMID 19300578.
- ↑ Sneader, Walter (2002). "History of Drug Therapy. The 50th Anniversary of Chlorpromazine". Drug News & Perspectives. 15 (7): 466–471. doi:10.1358/dnp.2002.15.7.840082. PMID 12677184.
- ↑ Cookson, John (July 2019). "Histamine in psychiatry: promethazine as a sedative anticholinergic". BJPsych Advances. 25 (4): 265–268. doi:10.1192/bja.2019.21. ISSN 2056-4678.