The medication is the first in decades to have a different mode of action than do current drugs, achieving better symptom ...

Chlorpromazine is an aliphatic phenothiazine used mainly as an antipsychotic. It is the prototype of the antipsychotic agents. It is rapidly absorbed after oral administration, but there is ...

Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach.

More so than any previous treatment, chlorpromazine (a phenothiazine ... such as withdrawal and social incompetence. The bulk of antipsychotics did not differ in their impact on the disease ...

If you are prescribed an antipsychotic medication, please consider finding a therapist you trust to help you learn more about what you are experiencing and to help you develop coping strategies to ...

Management of adverse events is a major concern of clinicians who use antipsychotic drugs. The incidence of motor side effects is dose dependent. Atypical antipsychotic drugs are less likely to ...

Acepromazine, or “ace”, is a medication used to sedate cats and dogs. It is a phenothiazine derivative antipsychotic ...

The number of children taking powerful antipsychotic drugs has nearly tripled over the last 10 to 15 years, according to recent research. The increase comes not because of an epidemic of ...

Antipsychotic medications work by inhibiting certain neurotransmitters or blocking receptors in the brain. Medications that ...

SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion) leads to hyponatremia water retention in hospitalized or ...

However there are many ways to help a person with FTD live well. From our winter 2016 issue of Care and Cure magazine, find out more about new information that is shedding light on how antipsychotics ...

SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion) leads to hyponatremia water retention in hospitalized or ...