Studying the effect of chlorpromazine on handwriting

ABSTRACT

Handwriting is an acquired skill. It is one of the most important parameters of the personal identification. It involves muscular actions and reflexes. There must be canstant coordination between the wrist and the arm muscles. Centrally acting drugs such as chlorpromazine, can exhibit some interventions, which interfere with the process of writing. This work aimed at studying the effect of chlorpromazine on the handwriting via comparing the handwriting of the same person both before and after the event of taking the drug from different technical points of view. The statistical results were found to be highly significant, also it was found that the duration after the drug intake, the more marked the effect on the handwriting. This is due to the effect of chlorpromazine on CNS, namely the neurological deterioration