In several clinical trials, clocapramine has been compared to other neuroleptic agents. Against haloperidol, though there was no significant difference in efficacy at the end of the study, clocapramine tended to be superior in alleviating motor retardation, alogia, and thought disorder, and also produced fewer side effects.[12] Against sulpiride, clocapramine demonstrated more favorable effects in the treatment of both positive and negativesymptoms, including motor retardation, delusions, hallucinations, and social isolation, though it produced more side effects.[13] Against timiperone, clocapramine showed lower efficacy against both positive and negative symptoms and produced more side effects such as dyskinesia, insomnia, constipation, and nausea.[14]
Clocapramine has been implicated in at least one fatality, a suicide in which there were two self-inflicted stab wounds and an overdose of clocapramine as well as three other antipsychotics was taken.[15] The stab wounds could not explain the death, and thus, it was attributed to multiple drug toxicity instead.[15]
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