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antipsychotic drugs

Used to calm patients who are psychologically disturbed.
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The objective of this study was to find out the class of antipsychotic drugs used for schizophrenic in patients.
A pharmacophore model is proposed, using fourteen second generation and one first generation antipsychotic drugs for Schizophrenia that are effective against both 5-HT2a and D2 receptors.
The condition is currently treated with antipsychotic drugs, but this therapy is given without guidance from lab tests to show effectiveness, as is common in other areas of medicine.
"You don't have to be a rocket scientist here; it looks like they're trying to control agitation and aggressive behavior with antipsychotic drugs," said Mills, who practices in the Washington, D.C., area and was an expert witness for a lawsuit that in 2008 stopped the federal government from forcibly administering antipsychotic drugs to deportees.
American nursing homes are misusing antipsychotic drugs to control the behaviour of residents with dementia, according to a new report.
Bullfrog AI Inc., an artificial intelligence company in Boyds, and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a Baltimore nonprofit medical research institute, are collaboratingon an initiative to better prescribe antipsychotic drugs. Bullfrog AI's artificial intelligence platform will analyze large data setsabout patients who receivedthe drugs tohelp physicians predict which patients respond best to which medications.
Antipsychotic drugs can cause death, can cause heart palpitations, heart issues with people," McGinnis said, adding that "There is always something new.
Most antipsychotic drugs (except sulpiride, amisulpride, risperidone, and paliperidone) are metabolized through the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system.
Following the introduction of chlorpromazine in 1952, antipsychotic drugs have been widely used for the treatment of schizophrenia [1, 32].
Contrary to the published reports, he implicated some other factors other than antipsychotic drugs that may cause metabolic abnormalities including cannabis, hashish and tobacco.
The use of antipsychotic drugs implies a difficult compromise between the beneficial effects, which imply a decrease of the psychotic symptoms, and the risk of some adverse effects, sometimes quite upsetting and in some cases leading to a shortening of life expectancy.