People take antipsychotics to treat schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. Your doctor will work with you to monitor your side effects and dosing schedule. Over the past few decades, access ...

Antipsychotic medications are used as short or long-term treatments for bipolar disorder to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, or mania symptoms. These symptoms may occur ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic and recurrent mental condition leading to huge impacts on direct and indirect personal and public medical costs. To overcome such a serious mental disorder ...

Antipsychotic drugs treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other mental health disorders. They can ease your symptoms and help you avoid a relapse (when your symptoms come back), but they can also ...

(Editor’s Note: This is the 10th in a series examining and interpreting a commonly used “bill of rights” for dementia patients.) When you’re new to a complex disease such as Alzheimer’s or another ...

Large numbers of people with intellectual disabilities in the UK are being inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs, finds a new study. Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition that ...

In this study from Sweden, Bodén and colleagues investigated the effects of maternal use of antipsychotics during pregnancy on the development of gestational diabetes and on fetal growth in a ...

Powerful antipsychotic medications are being used to treat children and teenagers with ADHD, aggression and behavior problems, a study finds, even though safer treatments are available and should be ...

A new study of nearly 500,000 nursing home residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications has found an increase in negative behaviors compared to those who were not given such drugs. The ...

A study analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that residents who were given antipsychotic medications showed a ...