TIL: As per the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in Psychiatry, "NOS means we don't know what the hell it is." More specifically, NOS stands for "not otherwise specified."
When choosing an initial pharmacological treatment for psychotic disorders you don't choose based on the drugs' respective efficacy but by the side effect profile of the patient. In other words, most of the drugs work equally as well so worrying about the potential side effects is more important.
The third ventricle of the brain is bordered laterally by the thalamus and hypothalamus, anteriorly by the lamina terminalis and anterior commissure, posteriorly by the pineal body and posterior commissure, superiorly by the fornix and coroid plexus, and inferiorly by the optic chiasm, pituitary infundibulum, tuber cinereum, and additional hypothalamus.
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