The patient’s recovery underscores the importance of exploring alternative treatments for antipsychotic-induced side effects.

ABSTRACT: Background: Antipsychotic medications are crucial for managing psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, but their use can lead to side effects. This study compares the efficacy and side ...

A 28-year-old Middle Eastern man develops severe motor disturbances, including muscle rigidity, tremors, a parkinsonian gait, and involuntary, jerky limb movements, following the administration of a 3 ...

Addition of the antipsychotic lumateperone (Caplyta) to an existing antidepressant improved symptoms of depression in a ...

People with chronic cocaine use can experience cognitive impairments and motor dysfunction that can be mitigated with antioxidant or anti-inflammatory agents; this supports the authors’ claim that ...

Background: Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are thought to have a lower likelihood of inducing extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) than are first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs). Clinical ...

Whether or not antipsychotic medication should be initiated depends upon the severity of the behavioral disturbance, the persistence of symptoms and whether the patient needs to be rechallenged ...

The risk of death and severe adverse effects is a crucially important issue related to psychopharmacological treatments. Højlund and colleagues 1 observed that compared with antipsychotic monotherapy, ...

Antipsychotic medications are prescription pharmaceuticals used to treat conditions that involve psychosis, a group of symptoms that affects the ability to tell what is real and what is not accurate.