A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified the molecular mechanisms that cause a commonly prescribed antipsychotic drug to produce harmful side effects similar to Parkinson's disease symptoms, ...

Individuals with mental illness are known to be at increased risk of systemic diseases, and neuropsychiatric disorders are associated with poor oral and dental health. Recent years, however, have seen ...

Use of sedating medications in long term care homes has continued to grow since the pandemic and Canadians with dementia are ...

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 ...

The HKUMed research team, led by Professor Francisco Lai Tsz-tsun (right), uses Hong Kong big data to identify rare side effects from antipsychotic medications through cross-disciplinary collaboration ...

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

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 ...

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Atypical antipsychotics, though not typically considered drugs of abuse, are now being used to enhance the effects of other drugs or as a way to counter the adverse effects of ...

In drivers with schizophrenia, better adherence to antipsychotic medication is associated with a lower risk for motor vehicle crashes, according to new research. In a case-crossover study, perfect ...