During that period, she was on antidepressants, antipsychotics and other medications, her records show.
Smith says there have been some preliminary results with antipsychotics, such as Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel.
And the antipsychotics that have been used to treat schizophrenia for years have serious neurological side effects.
His medications a cocktail of six, including painkillers, sleep aids and antipsychotics often keep him asleep until early afternoon.
Instead, Harrell stayed off antipsychotics for six months, refusing to see a psychiatrist.
That problem could be intensified, North says, as people are separated from necessary medicines such as antipsychotics or antidepressants.
Her doctors tried everything from Zoloft to mood stabilizers to heavy-duty antipsychotics, but none of them helped for long.
Prescriptions for Zyprexa in the U.S. have dropped more than 20% even as the overall market for antipsychotics has grown.
The Alzheimer's Society is issuing new guidance calling on doctors to think much harder before prescribing antipsychotics, and to look at prescribing pain medication instead.
Randomized, controlled trials have clearly documented the efficacy of a host of medications including stimulants, antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers in treating aggression in children and adolescents.
We know from dozens of randomized controlled trials that medications ranging from stimulants to antipsychotics to mood stabilizers are surprisingly effective in reducing aggression in children and adolescents.
Antipsychotics are nearing patent expiry too, and they are controversy magnets.
It might be approvable for patients whose schizophrenia is under control but who need to switch antipsychotics because their current drug is causing too much weight gain.
Although they are called "antipsychotics, " these agents (for example Seroquel, Abilify, Zyprexa) are also widely used to help with severe depression and anxiety and are often quite effective.
For decades, he took Stelazine, one of an old class of antipsychotics that controlled his paranoia and delusions but also left him with muscle spasms that contorted his body.
But some doctors are worried that harm will spill over to other patient groups, given the rampant off-label use of antipsychotics for treating ailments such as depression, Alzheimer's symptoms and anorexia.
The side effects that caused it and other antipsychotics like Haldol to fall out of favor, including serious neurological problems, might take longer than a year and a half to develop.
In the late 1950s scientists linked schizophrenia to an overload of dopamine in the brain, so they devised the first generation of antipsychotics, which homed in on a single dopamine receptor.
Geodon is the latest entry in a class of wonder drugs known as atypical antipsychotics atypical because, ostensibly, they work so much better than the older, "typical" antipsychotics in use for decades.
More information is unlikely to come from Lilly, but it may come from another source--a 1, 600 patient clinical trial comparing widely used antipsychotics that is expected to be available later this summer.
As with other compulsive behaviors like gambling and drinking, Delmonico recommends therapy and 12-step programs, although antidepressants (drugs llike Paxil or Zoloft) and antipsychotics like (these include Abilify and Zyprexa) may help.
Newer medications that have been shown to stabilize mood in bipolar disorder include valproic acid (Depakote), carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine (Lamictal) and several of a class of medications known as atypical antipsychotics.
Negative headlines for the industry have focused mostly on drugs that are already restricted (Avandia) or are off-patent (antipsychotics like Risperdal.) Sharfstein left the agency after toiling to make the FDA not the drug companies more transparent.
Lieberman was the primary investigator for a government-funded clinical trial that showed there was little difference in how long patients stuck with the new class of antipsychotics, like Zyprexa and Risperdal, vs. the older, cheaper variety, such as Haldol.
The battle over the antipsychotics market will be won in doctors' offices, he argues, and he says that being able to say Zyprexa is most effective could translate into an advantage--even if the efficacy comes at the cost of some side effects.
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