Pharmacoepidemiological studies exploring utilisation of psychotropic medications in real-life conditions are required to identify extension of indications, since the risk of gap between the theoretical target population and the population actually treated is especially marked for this class of drugs. A large proportion of subjects from the general population are exposed to psychotropic medicat...

The borderline personality concept has evolved from a term used to describe a neuroticpsychotic borderland (Knight 1963), or an almost but-not-quite schizophrenic process (Hock and Polatin 1949), to a more precise and operationally defined syndrome (American Psychiatric Association, 1980; Gunderson 1982). Affective changes are a major and consistent clinical feature in most descriptions of bord...

It is estimated that around 75% of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are prescribed psychotropic medication during their treatment course, although this is not recommended as first line therapy. In the UK, there are no guidelines to advise which drug treatments to use in BPD, however, numerous, but mostly small scale studies, show evidence that different medications target spe...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in psychotropic medication utilization and costs for children and adolescents between January 1, 1997, and December 31, 2000. METHODS Pharmacy claims were analyzed for mental health users 17 years and younger (N = 83 039) from a national database covering 1.74 million privately insured youths. Utilization rates and costs for dispensed medications were compared acro...

Psychotropic medications are now a well-established and evidenced based treatment for increasing number of child mental health disorders prescribed at increasing frequencies and by increasing number of professional groups. Clinicians' perceived levels of competence and standardised monitoring lag behind prescribing practice and should be addressed by regular continuous professional development....

Since their introduction, antipsychotic medications have been used widely to treat conditions other than psychiatric disorders, especially among individuals with mental retardation. Researchers have shown that the prevalence rates of psychotropic medication prescriptions among this population are extremely high. Given the limited empirical data to support the use of psychotropic medications, sp...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric disorders are equally common during pregnancy as among non-pregnant women, and many of these conditions are treated with psychotropic medicines. Relatively little is known about patterns of use of many these agents during pregnancy, and specifically of how rates may have shifted during the last decade. We aimed to quantify the rate of pregnancy related exposures to catego...

Abstract: Aim: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that related to poor physical health, early death and severe functional impairment. worldwide condition affects 1% of the population. It refers category symptoms involve disorganized bizarre thinking, delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate affect psychosocial functioning. Aim/Background: The main aim study assess prescribing pattern ef...

The prevalence of psychotropic drugs usage is growing in the general population. Moreover, patients with dyspeptic symptoms are increasingly referred to the use of psychiatric and antianxiety drugs in addition to the primary medical treatment. The focus of this observational retrospective study was to investigate the burden of psychotropic drugs usage in a cohort of patients with uninvestigated...