People take antipsychotics to treat schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. Your doctor will work with you to monitor your side effects and dosing schedule. Over the past few decades, access ...

The following guide offers a detailed overview of several classes of medications that research links to a higher risk of dementia. You will find what these drugs treat, the evidence connecting them to ...

Antipsychotics, as their name implies, are an important part of treating psychosis, a mental state often associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, though they can also be prescribed for ...

CMS appears to have made even more changes to its antipsychotic quality measure without advance notice, experts say. One consequence could be lower star ratings of which providers are unaware.

When you hear about dementia, the chances are you think about memory problems. But other common symptoms of dementia, including Alzheimer's, can be even more troublesome to patients and their families ...

Antipsychotic medications are used as short or long-term treatments for bipolar disorder to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, or mania symptoms. These symptoms may occur ...

For patients in nursing homes, treatment with antipsychotic medicines is pretty much routine. Though the drugs were developed to treat schizophrenia, they're also used to manage the dementia-related ...

Antipsychotic use in older adults with dementia is associated with a significant increased risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, fracture, acute kidney injury, and a range ...

Second-generation antipsychotics such as risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole, and olanzapine may also increase the risk for TD but at a lower rate when compared to first-generation antipsychotics. 2 ...

Trazodone is linked to better outcomes among older adults hospitalized with delirium than commonly used antipsychotic ...

Antipsychotics come from a long line of accidents. In 1876, German chemists created a textile dye called methylene blue, which happened to also dye cells. It meandered into biology labs and, soon ...