If you have schizophrenia, your doctor will likely prescribe antipsychotic medication to help you manage symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. Antipsychotics mostly block the effects of dopamine ...

Newly prescribed benzodiazepines or antipsychotics were tied to higher mortality for dementia patients in hospice. The drugs were started a median of 3 days after hospice enrollment and the mean stay ...

The use of antipsychotic drugs was associated with dysregulated glucose control (homeostasis) independent of weight gain compared with use of placebo, with increased levels of fasting glucose, insulin ...

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 ...

A research group in the Department of Pharmacology of the University of the Basque Country has investigated the adverse reactions that antipsychotics can cause in the mouth. The study was based on ...

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If loving Johnny Mnemonic is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. For three decades, the Keanu Reeves-led cyberpunk film that predated The Matrix has been generally classified as a misfire and an ...

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Older, first-generation antipsychotics, like chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and haloperidol (Haldol), usually cause movement-related side effects, such as tremors, says Randall Turner, DO, a psychiatrist ...