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Side Effects Of Schizophrenia
Treating Tardive Dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is one the four classic movement disorders associated with use of antipsychotic medication, the other three be...
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Expert & Community Posts
Schizophrenia and Smoking
By Paul Ballas , Health Expert...in the liver, and this can cause a wide range of effects. For people taking antipsychotic... Read more »
What are the Cardiac Side Effects of Medications for Schizophrenia?
By Paul Ballas , Health Expert...highly discussed topic in psychiatry: the cardiac side effects of antipsychotic medications in... Read more »
The FDA approves a powerful anti-psychotic for use in children (seriously?)
By Deborah Gray , Health Expert...potentially a boon for children who have been dealing with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder... Read more »
New Haldol Warning Label
By Christina Bruni , Health Expert...prolongation and Torsades de Pointes as serious side effects. A number of case reports indicated... Read more »
A New Indication for Abilify
By Paul Ballas , Health Expert...that patients taking aripiprazole did have more side effects than those taking placebo. The... Read more »
Health Guide
Schizophrenia: Treatment
...control symptoms than those who do not seek help as quickly. In spite of strong evidence for the positive effects of early treatment, patients usually do not receive treatment until after 10... Read more »Schizophrenia: Diagnosis
...or more verbal screening tests to help determine whether a patient's symptoms meet the criteria for schizophrenia. Because no single symptom is specific to schizophrenia, a diagnosis may be made... Read more »Schizophrenia: Complications
...symptoms. Also, on average, the later the onset of the disease, the milder the social impact. The long-term effects on work and relationships, however, are usually severe and difficult to repair,... Read more »Schizophrenia: Treatment
...(in 1989), and paliperodine the most recent approved (in 2007). Clozapine appears to have more side effects than the other atypical antipsychotics. Most of these drugs come in pill form, but some... Read more »Schizophrenia: References
...other trials. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;68(2):e04.Marder SR, West B, Lau GS, et al. Aripiprazole effects in patients with acute schizophrenia experiencing higher or lower agitation: a post hoc... Read more »Images
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