Nursing homes misuse antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, disguise practice as schizophrenia treatment, watchdog finds.

Abilify (aripiprazole) is a prescription atypical antipsychotic that treats depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, irritability related to autism, and specific Tourette's symptoms. While most ...

Sedona inpatient program educates on iloperidone side effects, anticholinergic burden, and holistic alternatives for ...

Schizophrenia patients on antipsychotics lost significantly more weight and had a greater reduction in HbA1c with 1 mg semaglutide than placebo. Patients with severe psychiatric disorders and those ...

Donald Goff, Jeffrey Lieberman, and colleagues recently published a review article entitled “The Long-Term Effects of Antipsychotic Medication on Clinical Course in Schizophrenia” in the American ...

Since the first antipsychotic medication, chlorpromazine, was developed in the early 1950s, it could be argued that not all that much has changed in the pharmacological treatment of psychotic ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world. It affects hundreds of millions of people and can cause deep sadness, loss of energy, sleep problems, and difficulty ...