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Antipsychotic Polypharmacy and High-Dose Antipsychotic Regimens in the Residential Italian Forensic Psychiatric Population (REMS)

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Few data exist regarding treatment with antipsychotics in forensic psychiatric patient populations with high social dangerousness. We performed a secondary analysis of 681 patients treated with at least one antipsychotic, extracted from a 1-year ...
Gabriele Mandarelli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors associated with costs of hospitalization of severely mentally Ill patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Efforts to contain costs associated with general medical care include particular efforts for psychiatric disorders. Hospitalization represents the largest component of costs for psychiatric care and there is growing interest in balancing ...
Baldessarini, RossJ   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Prescriptions of Antipsychotics in Younger and Older Geriatric Patients with Polypharmacy, Their Safety, and the Impact of a Pharmaceutical-Medical Dialogue on Antipsychotic Use

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2022
Geriatric patients are a particularly vulnerable and, at the same time, very heterogeneous group due to their multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Antipsychotics are often prescribed in their complex drug regimens, whereby the prescription of antipsychotics ...
Eva-Maria Gebauer, Albert Lukas
doaj   +1 more source

Symptomatic treatment of children with anti-NMDAR encephalitis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
AIM: We performed the first study on the perceived benefit and adverse effects of symptomatic management in children with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis.
Brilot, F   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Altered brainstem responses to modafinil in schizophrenia: implications for adjunctive treatment of cognition. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Candidate pro-cognitive drugs for schizophrenia targeting several neurochemical systems have consistently failed to demonstrate robust efficacy. It remains untested whether concurrent antipsychotic medications exert pharmacodynamic interactions that ...
Carter, Cameron S   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Risk of dyslipidaemia with antipsychotic drug treatment in Chinese inpatients with mental illness: a hospital-based cohort study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To determine the association of long-term use of antipsychotics with the risk of dyslipidaemia.Design A hospital-based cohort study.Setting Electronic health record data of adult mental health inpatients in all 19 specialised psychiatric ...
Juan Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics in bipolar disorder. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BackgroundBipolar disorder (BD) is a psychiatric illness defined by pathological alterations between the mood states of mania and depression, causing disability, imposing healthcare costs and elevating the risk of suicide.
A Berghofer   +172 more
core   +3 more sources

Antipsychotic Polypharmacy

open access: yesFocus, 2020
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
openaire   +3 more sources

Associations between antipsychotics and the risk of incident cardiovascular diseases in individuals with schizophrenia: a nested case–control study

open access: yesBMJ Mental Health, 2023
Background The association between antipsychotics and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains significant yet unestablished, especially in Chinese populations.Objective To investigate the risk of CVDs associated with antipsychotics among Chinese ...
Peng Peng   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antipsychotics and Torsadogenic Risk: Signals Emerging from the US FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Drug-induced torsades de pointes (TdP) and related clinical entities represent a current regulatory and clinical burden. Objective: As part of the FP7 ARITMO (Arrhythmogenic Potential of Drugs) project, we explored the publicly available US ...
A Bate   +53 more
core   +4 more sources

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