To earn CME related to this news article, click here. January 14, 2009 (Nashville, Tennessee) — The risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is as high with newer atypical antipsychotic drugs as it is with ...

Schizophrenia medication falls under two main categories: older, first-generation, or "typical" antipsychotics and newer drugs for schizophrenia known as second-generation or "atypical" antipsychotics ...

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Many of the antipsychotic medications block post-synaptic D2 receptors in the central nervous system, particularly in the mesolimbic-frontal system. 20 It has been reported that for an antipsychotic ...

Older patients prescribed an atypical antipsychotic for hospitalization-related delirium more often stayed on it past the recommended duration than if prescribed a typical antipsychotic, researchers ...

Second-generation antipsychotics appeared to curb COVID-19 infection in those with serious mental illness, a retrospective study showed. Looking at adults hospitalized long-term in the New York ...

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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Atypical antipsychotics, though not typically considered drugs of abuse, are now being used to enhance the effects of other drugs or as a way to counter the adverse effects of ...

Day after day, Hazel Eng sat on her couch, a blank stare on her face. The powerful antipsychotics she was taking often cloaked her in sedation. And when they didn't, the 89-year-old lashed out at her ...