Antipsychotics are medications used to manage and treat symptoms of psychiatric disorders. There are two main categories of ...

Pie charts of receptor affinity of antipsychotic drugs. Affinity ratios for various neurotransmitter receptors are shown; the sum of inverse of Ki values for these receptors is supposed to be 100% ...

Although previous studies report cognitive improvement following atypical antipsychotic administration in schizophrenia (SC), few placebo-controlled within-subject studies with examination of ...

Two atypical antipsychotic drugs were considered to be equivalent if the CI was contained within 0.5 and 2.0 ... Pollock, BG, Mulsant, BH, Rosen, J, et al. Comparison of citalopram, ...

A new study finds that one the fastest-growing classes of prescription drugs in the United States is linked to shrinkage in the brains of those who take it, raising some new questions about the ...

Within the first six months of treatment, 14.1 per cent of the people on the conventional drugs died, compared to 9.6 per cent in the atypical antipsychotics group.

0.4 pounds in the untreated comparison group. Overall, 10 per cent to 36 per cent of the subjects became overweight or obese within 11 weeks of starting antipsychotic drug treatment.