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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a common, severe, and usually chronic disorder. Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs can prevent relapse but also causes side-effects.
J. Schneider-Thoma +11 more
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The availability of long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia provides clinicians with options that deliver continuous drug exposure and may improve adherence compared with daily oral antipsychotics.
C. Correll +7 more
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Summary Background Antipsychotic treatment is associated with metabolic disturbance. However, the degree to which metabolic alterations occur in treatment with different antipsychotics is unclear.
T. Pillinger +10 more
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Mental disorders frequently begin in childhood or adolescence. Psychotropic medications have various indications for the treatment of mental disorders in this age group and are used not infrequently off‐label.
M. Solmi +8 more
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Physicians who treat patients with schizophrenia frequently encounter complex clinical situations not fully addressed by published treatment guidelines. Some of these situations lead to antipsychotic polypharmacy, often prescribed when clinical and social obstacles prevent access to clozapine and patients have had suboptimal responses to nonclozapine ...
Adriana, Foster, Jordanne, King
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Nefazodone in psychotic unipolar and bipolar depression: A retrospective chart analysis and open prospective study on its efficacy and safety versus combined treatment with amitriptyline and haloperidol [PDF]
Although atypical antipsychotics are on the rise, traditional treatment of psychotic (or delusional) depression mostly includes the addition of classical antipsychotics to antidepressants. As there are only few data supporting this approach compared with
Born, Christoph +4 more
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Summary Background Schizophrenia is one of the most common, burdensome, and costly psychiatric disorders in adults worldwide. Antipsychotic drugs are its treatment of choice, but there is controversy about which agent should be used.
M. Huhn +12 more
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Background Although much progress has been made on antipsychotic drug development, precise mechanisms behind the action of typical and atypical antipsychotics are poorly understood.
Song Jonathan +7 more
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Hyperprolactinemia as a side effect of using antipsychotics In Schizophrenic Patients
Introductions: Antipsychotics are still the mainstay of schizophrenia management. Antipsychotics are antagonistic to postsynaptic dopamine receptors in the brain.
Syaiful Anwar, Khairina
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Quality of life in Romanian patients with schizophrenia based on gender, type of schizophrenia, therapeutic approach, and family history [PDF]
The low quality of life of patients with schizophrenia has been extensively discussed and investigated. Various aspects from gender, socio-demographic profile, and/or type of neuroleptic treatment have been taken into account in describing this condition.
Alexinschi, Ovidiu Eugen +4 more
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