Maine has the 12th highest rate of long-term nursing home residents on antipsychotics, which carry health risks.

Antipsychotic medication is used in schizophrenia, severe depression, elation (in bipolar disorder), and other conditions. These medications offer many benefits provided they are used with care and ...

When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to ...

Donald Goff, Jeffrey Lieberman, and colleagues recently published a review article entitled “The Long-Term Effects of Antipsychotic Medication on Clinical Course in Schizophrenia” in the American ...

While all medications carry potential side effects, certain types have been shown to increase the risk of falls, confusion ...

A study analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that residents who were given antipsychotic medications showed a ...

Schizophrenia patients on antipsychotics lost significantly more weight and had a greater reduction in HbA1c with 1 mg semaglutide than placebo. Patients with severe psychiatric disorders and those ...