Antipsychotic drugs for non-psychotic patients

Schizophrenic Patients Taking Antipsychotic Drugs

~ ! , -" .~ link these neuropathologic findings to pathogenic processes and the clinical dimensions of the disease. Two questions that have not been resolved, however, are 1) whether some of the neuropathologic findings associated with schizophrenia are a consequence of the disease or of the substantial treatment that most patients receive in the course of their illness and 2) whether the neuro...

Patients on Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs

Patients with schizophrenia are more likely than the general population to develop diabetes, which contributes to a high risk of cardiovascular complications; individuals with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than the general population. The risk of diabetes, and hence cardiovascular disease, is particularly increased by some of the new atypica...

Antipsychotic Drugs

The term psychosis refers to a variety of mental disorders characterized by one or more of the following symptoms: diminished and distorted capacity to process information and draw logical conclusions, hallucinations, delusions, incoherence or marked loosening of associations, catatonic or disorganized behavior, and aggression or violence. Antipsychotic drugs lessen these symptoms regardless of...

Testing for diabetes in hospitalised patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs.

BACKGROUND Studies using computer databases suggest that atypical antipsychotic agents are more likely to be associated with diabetes than are conventional drugs. AIMS To discover the extent of testing for diabetes mellitus in hospital in-patients prescribed antipsychotics. METHOD Prescription charts were screened to identify patients prescribed antipsychotics. Case notes were then searched...

Antipsychotic drugs and hypothermia