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Atypical antipsychotics

PharmacoEconomics & Outcomes News, 1999
This paper synthetizes important information concerning principal atypical antipsychotic drugs actually used in clinical practice: classification, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic uses, side effects, contra-indications and drug interactions. These molecules have heterogeneous structures, but are more and more used because of good neurological tolerance ...
C, Massoubre, F, Lang
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Atypical Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2005
Atypical antipsychotic drugs are primarily indicated for the treatment of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Recently, they have also been used for mood stabilization. This article reviews other, potentially therapeutically useful indications for these medications.
Nora Selengut, Brooke   +2 more
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Quetiapine, an Atypical Antipsychotic

Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 1998
The discovery of antipsychotic agents in the 1950s revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia. A large body of evidence supports the dopamine D2 receptor antagonist's efficacy in the treatment of psychotic symptoms. However, the advent of newer agents seems to point to a more complex interaction of neurotransmission in the pathophysiology of ...
J L, Goren, G M, Levin
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Atypical antipsychotic drugs

BMJ, 2011
#### Case scenario A 19 year old student has a six month history of social withdrawal, and bizarre behaviour. He becomes suspicious of his fellow students and believes that his teachers are monitoring his activity on Facebook. He is heard laughing and shouting when he is alone.
Mackin P, Thomas SHL
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Atypical antipsychotics and hyperglycaemia

International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2001
Hyperglycaemia is known occasionally to occur with conventional neuroleptics, but has more recently been associated with atypical antipsychotics especially clozapine and olanzapine. This article examines more closely this association. A review of relevant published literature from 1970 to date was undertaken following Medline and Embase searches in ...
S, Mir, D, Taylor
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The Dosing of Atypical Antipsychotics

Psychosomatics, 2005
Drug-drug interactions or genetic variability may require using doses different from those recommended for atypical antipsychotics. Dosage alterations of olanzapine and clozapine, dependent on cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) for clearance, and quetiapine, dependent on cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A), may be necessary when used with other drugs that inhibit or ...
Jose, de Leon   +2 more
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