Bmj.com has published an article from The British Medical Journal about a study showing that antipsychotics are not a good option for people with dementia. I wrote about antipsychotics for OurAlzheimer's, before, in a post titled "For Dementia Patients, Drugs Shouldn't Be Used to Control."
In that post, I addressed the fact that antipsychotics are often used to "calm" a person with Alzheimer's, and that studies show they don't work. They simply drug the people, without helping the root...
A study by the Harvard Medical School published this week has again highlighted the risks of using antipsychotic medication for people with... Read more »
Antipsychotic medications are used to control psychoses such as schizophrenia, but they can also be used to treat behavioral disturbances... Read more »
Agitation causes untold misery for people with dementia, and their caregivers. A new study by researchers from the England and Norway has... Read more »
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to physicians that conventional antipsychotic medication, used to treat... Read more »
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, NMS for short, is a dangerous side effect of many antipsychotic medications such as Geodon (ziprasidone)... Read more »
British researchers have found that people who take newer types of antipsychotic medications such as Seroquel may have a higher risk for developing a... Read more »
A study of more than 400 Alzheimer's patients found that newer antipsychotic drugs caused weight gain and lowered good cholesterol in patients. The... Read more »
Weight gain is a common side effect of such mood-stabilizing drugs as Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Zyprexa. But a new study has found that adding the... Read more »
A new study suggests that antipsychotic drugs are not the answer to treating delusions and aggression in Alzheimer's patients. According to the... Read more »
According to a new study, American children are prescribed antipsychotic medications much more frequently than British children, but the use of these... Read more »
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