Antipsychotic drugs—used to treat the millions of people in the U.S. with schizophrenia—have lots of unpleasant side effects. The drugs also aren't effective for many people. There is an urgent need ...

Seventy-two years after the first antipsychotic, Thorazine, was approved, psychiatry is now seriously discussing the need to ...

Last month I wrote an open letter, as Chair of the International Institute of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, requesting that the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) reverse its ...

What families need to know about a renewed debate over rules for nursing homes that sedate dementia patients.

An increased concentration of the hormone leptin in fat cells is believed to be responsible for weight gain associated with antipsychotic drugs, according to research led by UT Southwestern Medical ...

There has been much attention in the last three years or so on research showing that antidepressants have severe withdrawal effects for many people when they try to stop. It has also been known for ...

Rates for Medicaid foster kids are four times higher than others in the program. The use of powerful behavior-changing medications in kids who are covered by Medicaid is declining in the 36 ...

(Reuters Health) - Adding the cheap antipsychotic drug olanzapine to conventional anti-vomiting medicine can help prevent nausea in cancer patients, according to a new test of 380 volunteers. During ...

Risperidone, an antipsychotic drug commonly used for severe agitation or aggressive behavior, increases stroke risk in patients with dementia. | Neuroscience ...

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Jan 03 — A second-generation antipsychotic drug lowers the risk of relapse in patients with schizophrenia by nearly half, according to a team of researchers, led by ...