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• How To Switch from One to the Other Antidepressant

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 499
  Depressed patients often do not respond to there first antidepressant or have to quit the antidepressant due to side effects. Switching to another antidepressant is often a solution. Nevertheless switching from one to the other depressant can be difficult. How do you switch, which taper scheme and which built up ...
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• Schizophrenia Profile Consistent Worldwide

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 552
  A wide-reaching study of people with schizophrenia discovered amazing similarities in symptoms, medication, employment and sexual problems. The findings are remarkable because investigators studied more than 17,000 individuals located among health care systems in 37 different countries. The research, published in ...
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• Antipsychotics Like Seroquel for Dementia Blamed for Deaths and Strokes

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 541
  According to a new report, side effects of antipsychotics , such as Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal and Abilify, could be responsible for as many as 1,800 deaths and 1,620 strokes each year among the elderly with dementia in the United Kingdom. The report , which was commissioned by the British government, found ...
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• Where are the Niacin Studies for Schizophrenia?

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 133
  Travelling back some 50 or more years ago there were some members of the medical profession who took a totally different look at mental health issues.  Instead of fluoride based anti-psychotics, these courageous fellows relied on nutritional supplementation and effectively treated thousands of people diagnosed as ...
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• From a Strip Mall, Chicago Psychiatrist Delivers High-Risk Meds, Cut-Rate Care To Elderly

  
  KEVIN MILLER'S WORLD — Authority: 100
  by Christina Jewett, ProPublica, and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune Dr. Michael Reinstein is one of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities. But he is trailed by lawsuits and complaints while getting government reimbursement for seeing a large number of ...
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• Latest News – Report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 145
  Report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia   Department of Health, 12 November 2009 Click on the title above to gain full-text access to the report Abstract: In recognition of widespread concern about the over-prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, and as part of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• To the U.S. FDA : Anti-psychotics need reviewing for safety for all patients

  
  soulful sepulcher — Authority: 473
  Ive been a regular reader of Schizophrenia-A Carers Journal for a long time now. The blog is authored by a father of a son, diagnosed with Schizophrenia. He keeps the journal about his son, and I often relate to much of his candid and poignant entries.His son is currently residing in a locked psychiatric ward in the ...
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• Government takes action on antipsychotic drugs and dementia

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 145
  Government takes action on antipsychotic drugs and dementia    Department of Health, 12 November 2009 Click on the title to gain access Abstract: A tough new action plan to tackle the over prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia was today announced by Care Services Minister Phil ...
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• Antipsychotics Given Needlessly To Dementia Patients

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  More than 140,000 dementia patients in the UK are given antipsychotics needlessly and some 1,800 deaths in elderly people each year have been linked to overprescribing, according to a report commissioned by the government. The review showed that only around 36,000 of around 180,000 dementia patients prescribed ...
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• Effects of word frequency on semantic memory in schizophrenia: Electrophysiological evidence for a deficit in linguistic access

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Background Abnormal storage and/or access are among the hypothesized causes of semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia. Neuropsychological and connectionist models have emphasized functional systems that serve the processing of word meaning and frequency: semantic storage disturbance is presumed to result from weak ...
  2 weeks ago

• Abilify

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 151
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• 600-plus Ill. patients drugged without consent

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  After a review of 40,000+ inspection reports for Illinois nursing homes, the Chicago Tribune ’s Sam Roe reports that the paper found 1,200 violations (affecting 2,900 patients) involving psychotropic drugs since 2001 . More than 600 patients were drugged without their consent. According to Roe, “The actual ...
  4 weeks ago

• AstraZeneca Pays $520M To Settle Seroquel Probes

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  This was predictable. After Lilly and, more recently, Pfizer settled long-running investigations into off-label marketing practices of their various drugs - notably, antipsychotics - it was expected that AstraZeneca would follow suit. And so AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $520 million to settle two federal ...
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• Psychotic Reaction: Nursing Homes & Antipsychotics

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Nursing homes throughout Illinois are being dosed with powerful psychotropic drugs, leading to tremors, dangerous lethargy and a higher risk of harmful falls or even death, according to an investigation by The Chicago Tribune . Thousands of elderly and disabled people have been affected, many of them drugged without ...
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• Zyprexa, Seroquel Use Among Kids Linked to Dramatic Weight Gain

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 541
  A new study has found that use of newer atypical antipsychotics, such as Seroquel and Zyprexa , can cause rapid and dramatic weight gain among children. The study, conducted by scientists at Zucker Hillside Hospital and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, was published today by the Journal of the ...
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• Did you know…

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 141
  Did you know that young people who take antipsychotic drugs are likely to see rapid weight gain? Reports the New York Times: Young children and adolescents who take the newest generation of antipsychotic medications risk rapid weight gain and metabolic changes that could lead to diabetes , hypertension and ...
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• Neurocognitive functions in euthymic bipolar patients

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Objective: Meta-analytic findings support the hypothesis of specific neurocognitive deficits for bipolar patients in the domains of attention, processing speed, memory and executive functions. This study aims to show neurocognitive impairment in euthymic patients with bipolar I disorder compared with healthy controls ...
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• Kids On Zyprexa Gained How Much Weight?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Anywhere from 10 to 19 pounds. And that was just the Lilly pill. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found kids’ weight zoomed in the first three months on antipsychotics, often leading to elevated cholesterol and triglycerides levels. Weight gain is a known side effect but, as Forbes ...
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• Antipsychotics Cause Weight Gain in Children, Teens

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 552
  Up to one third of children and teens who took common antipsychotic drugs for the first time became overweight or obese in as little as 11 weeks, according to new research. Being overweight or obese raises a person’s risk for diabetes and heart disease. “Our findings suggest increased caution in prescribing ...
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