[Contribution to the pharmacology of a novel neuroleptic drug: flupenthixol (author's transl)].

Flupenthixol, which is chemically closely related to clopenthixol and fluphenamine, has the following properties: it reduces spontaneous motor activity, disturbs the behaviour, potentiates hexobarbital and chloral sleep, lowers central temperature and protects from death due to amphetamine; it is cataleptigenous and antagonizes apomorphic vomiting; it has marked adrenolytic and antihistaminic properties; its analgesic action is noteworthy. Flupenthixol presents the pharmacological profile of a neuroleptic drug.