Antipsychotic prescribing in children has doubled in 20 years.
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Antipsychotics can have severe side effects, there’s a lack of guidance on how to stop taking these drugs safely.
People with schizophrenia are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those without the serious mental illness, making it second only to age as a risk factor for mortality.
Patients taking antipsychotics aren’t being made aware of the risks or side-effects.
Some antipsychotics with the worst side-effects are the best at treating symptoms.
Treatment needs to focus on fewer antidepressants, more lithium and supportive group education.
Quetiapine is an antipsychotic drug to treat severe mental illness, but it makes people feel sleepy, so has also been used as a sleeping pill – by prescription and illicitly.
Because of their sedative effect, antipsychotic medications are often used – in fact they are over-used – to “manage” people with dementia. This is against clinical guidelines.
Knowing why patients on anti-psychotics gain weight may help researchers learn more about human attentional bias and food.
The physiological changes at the onset of schizophrenia are as marked as the mental changes, new study finds.
Using antipsychotics off licence is causing more problems than it solves.
Cannabidiol shows promise in treating psychosis in a placebo controlled trial.
Quetiapine, sold under the brand name Seroquel, is a short-acting antipsychotic drug to treat major mental illnesses. It has also been increasingly prescribed off-label for insomnia.
The symptoms of ‘schizophrenia’ are very real, but experts are looking for a better way to define them.
Dopamine: a powerful substance that is much more than just a pleasure chemical.
People with intellectual disabilities and either behavioural disturbance, autism or dementia are significantly more likely to be prescribed anti-psychotic drugs.
How someone suffering from schizophrenia responds to treatment and manages their disorder is dependent on errors in their genes, according to new research.
Our research suggests one in three people taken into police custody are likely to be receiving psychiatric treatment at the time.
According to a study of Vermont doctors, best practice guidelines for prescribing antipsychotic medication to children are followed only half the time.
News this week that as many as 100,000 prescriptions for anti-psychotics were written for Australian children in 2013 is cause for concern. Though the drugs may be appropriate in a small number of cases…
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Doctor and Clinical Researcher, King's College London
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Academic Clinical Fellow, UCL
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Professor & Head of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry, UCL
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Instituto Cajal - CSIC
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Professor of Biological Psychology, Linnaeus University
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University Distinguished Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science, Director of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Victorian Institute of Forensic Behavioural Science (Forensicare), Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Instituto Cajal - CSIC
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PhD Candidate, University of Milan
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PhD Candidate, University of Stuttgart
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PhD Candidate, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Vermont
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
