Given the brief duration of brief psychotic disorder, medications tend to be an important part of addressing many of its symptoms. The first line of treatment includes atypical antipsychotics, for example: risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, aripiprazole, paliperidone, asenapine, iloperidone...
Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs), also known asatypicalantipsychotics, are a newer class ofantipsychoticmedications used to treatschizophrenia,bipolar disorderand related psychiatric conditions. Second generation antipsychotics were developed to improve upon the efficacy and safety of first generation anti...
In Illinois, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services has excluded 17 drugs from its preferred drug list (including Abilify), requiring physicians to call or send in a fax to obtain preauthorization. Three key antipsychotics lose patent protection: state medicaid programs, patients to save...
Acute Kidney Injury and Mortality in the Elderly: Add Atypical Antipsychotics to the Listdoi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.01.005Dennis G. MoledinaMark A. PerazellaAmerican Journal of Kidney DiseasesMoledina, D. G., and Perazella, M. A. 2015. Acute kidney injury and mortality in the elderly: Add ...
Physical and verbal aggression is a significant problem for some individuals with mild intellectual disabilities who reside in the community. We assessed the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based procedure,Meditation on the Soles of the Feet, to control both physical and verbal aggression. The design ...
administration with other antipsychotics. While immediate discontinuation of the previous antipsychotic treatment may be acceptable for some patients with schizophrenia, more gradual discontinuation may be most appropriate for others. In all cases, the period of overlapping antipsychotic administration should ...
Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death. Analyses of 17 placebo-controlled trials (modal duration of 10 weeks), largely in patients taking atypical antipsychotic drugs, revealed a risk of death in drug-treated patients of be...