Antipsychotic medication is used in schizophrenia, severe depression, elation (in bipolar disorder), and other conditions. These medications offer many benefits provided they are used with care and ...

When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to treat this frightening and potentially dangerous behavior. Antipsychotic ...

Second-generation antipsychotics such as risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole, and olanzapine may also increase the risk for TD but at a lower rate when compared to first-generation antipsychotics. 2 ...

BATCHES of a drug taken by thousands of Brits are being recalled over fears they could trigger overdoses. Quetiapine is an ...

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 ...

Maine has the 12th highest rate of long-term nursing home residents on antipsychotics, which carry health risks.

A panel of medical experts for the federal Food and Drug Administration is being asked to approve three powerful and expensive antipsychotic drugs for use in children. The FDA panel begins a two-day ...

New York nursing homes give about one fifth of their residents antipsychotic drugs, according to the latest data from the Long Term Care Community Coalition, a figure that has stayed flat since last ...

The goal of any schizophrenia treatment is to reduce symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions, so you can function throughout the day — ideally without many side effects. But it can take some ...

—That question formed the basis of a new study from the U.K., which sought to learn more about the risk of tardive dyskinesia (TD)—a persistent, potentially irreversible movement disorder—in children ...