Are older antipsychotic drugs obsolete?

Are all antipsychotic drugs the same?

Antipsychotic drugs and hyperglycemia in older patients with diabetes.

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that there is an association between antipsychotic drugs and new-onset diabetes, but little is known about the risk of hyperglycemia among persons with preexisting diabetes. METHODS Using a nested case-control design and population-based health databases in Ontario, Canada, persons aged 66 years or older with diabetes who started treatment with an antipsychotic dr...

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...

Are Virtual Fonts Obsolete?

Virtual fonts (VF) were created to address a shortcoming of TEX fonts: each slot address occupied exactly one byte, so there were no more than 256 different characters per font. Later, when PostScript fonts got popular, VF became the way of choice for integration of these fonts with TEX. Today new font formats can be directly read by the modern TEX engines, and, for example, X E TEX can directl...

Persistent auditory hallucinations that are unresponsive to antipsychotic drugs.

According to DSM-IV-TR, a hallucination is “a sensory perception that has a compelling sense of reality of a true perception, but occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ.” Thus, an auditory hallucination is a false perception of sound. These are the most common forms of hallucinations (1). Auditory hallucinations are found most often in patients with schizophrenia, wit...