BACKGROUND Psychotropic medications have been associated with many adverse outcomes in older people living in residential care. Home-like models of residential care may be preferable to traditional models of care and we hypothesized that this model may impact on the prevalence of psychotropic medications. The objectives were to: 1) examine associations between psychotropic medications and quali...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of prescribing psychotropic medications, particularly inappropriate prescription, is widespread in older adults, both in nursing home residents as well as community-dwelling older adults. This review describes prevalence and prevention of inappropriate prescribing and risk factors associated with psychotropic medications. METHODS MEDLINE and GOOGLE SCHOLAR data base were...

Birçok canlı organizmada, omurgalı ve memeli canlıda olduğu gibi insanda da biyolojik işlevler çeşitli aralıklarla salınan ritimlerle yürür. Sirkadyen, ultradien ve infradian ya da daha uzun aralıklarla salınan iç ritimlerimiz kendi iç düzenlerini her şartta devam ettiren, bağımsız biyolojik organizasyonlardır. Biyolojik olarak kendiliğinden işleyen, istikrarlı bir yol varsa da, gerek psikiyatr...

Psychotropic drugs are not necessarily the drugs of psychiatry. Seventy percent of antidepressants, and 90% of anxiolytics are prescribed by nonpsychiatric physicians. Since psychotropic medications are so frequently employed by nonpsychiatric physicians, e.g., neurologists, primary care physicians, internists, and because large numbers of their patients are concurrently on medical drugs for so...

The use of psychotropic medications in youth with emotional disturbances in state custody is increasing and presents unique challenges concerning consent and oversight. We examine various means that state child welfare agencies use to provide consent for and oversight of psychotropic medications for children in state custody and describe benefits of a consent process that provides for expert co...

Palliative care, as both a movement and a medical subspecialty, has grown over time from a small hospice movement focusing on the care of the actively dying to a clinical specialty focusing on symptom control and provision of support to those living with chronic, life-threatening illnesses in addition to those at the end of their lives.1 Given the burden of disease these patients face, it is pe...

BACKGROUND Management of patients with mental disorders is inadequate in the majority of low and middle income countries. The main treatment modality for patients with severe mental disorders in these countries is mainly pharmacological approach. Patients face many challenges in meeting medication needs. In this context, high percentages of individuals who have severe mental disorders are not t...

Medication use was examined in 286 adolescents and adults with ASD over a 4.5 year period. A total of 70% were taking a psychotropic or non-psychotropic medication at the beginning of the study. Both the number of psychotropic and non-psychotropic medications taken, and the proportion of individuals taking these medications, increased significantly over the study period, with 81% taking at leas...