Atypical antipsychotic

A commonly recognized but often misunderstood illness is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, in basic terms, is a severe mental disorder that is characterized by impaired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The word schizophrenia originated in 1908 by a Swiss doctor named Eugen Bleuler to describe the splitting apart of mental functions that he marked as the main characteristic of the illness. (Lerner). Although the information on the disease is abundant, schizophrenia can be broken down into its causes

onset of symptoms and subsequent treatment. She was a college aged woman at the time, who seemingly randomly began “hearing voices from the sky”. She chose to seek help and was prescribed clozapine, which is considered to be the most effective antipsychotic currently on the market (Moghaddam & Javitt, 2012). When this treatment was shown to be uneffective, Naomi

A research study was conducted by Dr. Helen Kales and others as to whether or not antipsychotic drugs increased mortality rate in elderly dementia patients. In her article in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Kales concluded, “Antipsychotic medications taken by patients with dementia were associated with higher mortality rates than were most other medications used for neuropsychiatric symptoms.” According to Dr. Lyketos, who did a presentation about dementia patients, “A few neuropsychiatric symptoms

Introduction Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that leads disorganized thoughts, unusual behavior, abnormal speech and altered emotion. It is one of the most misunderstanding mental disorders in the society; and the prevalence of it is approximately 1% with its onset trend occurred among adolescent to young adulthood. Due to the circumstance of mental illness in the society, New Zealand government legislated The Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment & Treatment) Act in 1992 (MHA(CAT), 1992)

SPECIAL POPULATION Psychiatrists often encounters patients who are in special situations such as pregnancy, extreme of ages and/or medically ill. These situations cause deviation from the normal physiological process of the body and renders the group vulnerable to adverse drug effect. Therefore it is crucial for the clinicians to have fair knowledge about appropriate medication selection and dosing while treating these special populations. Psychiatric illness during pregnancy is not an uncommon

Though the antagonist effects by atypical antipsychotics on D2 receptors are identical to the typical antipsychotics, the second action neutralizes a large amount of EPS. Acting as an antagonist brings receptor activity back to baseline, which can have different effects depending on the receptor being targeted. The 5HT2A receptor regulates the release of dopamine into the striatum, when the activity level of this receptor is lowered it increases the release of dopamine which helps prevent the excessive

medication there are also side effects. These side effects may include weight gain, diabetes and lipid disorders. (“How Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications Work”) As you can see, schizophrenia medications frequently cause side effects. Researchers are still trying to find a way to treat schizophrenia without having such major side effects. Although atypical medication has less drastic side effects than conventional medication they both have reasons as to why patients would not want to take

Improving Schizophrenia with Risperdal Mental illness affects millions of people every day. One of the most debilitating forms of mental illness is schizophrenia. The Oxford dictionary defines schizophrenia as; A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

In the January 18th 2016 issue of People Magazine, AstraZeneca ran an advertisement for Seroquel XR, an atypical antipsychotic. This advertisement was just one of seven prescription drug advertisements in the 94 page magazine, all urging readers to ask their doctors about a medication. These seven advertisements are a small sample of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisement that flood television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and websites in the United States. The debate about whether DTC advertisement

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe and chronic neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by alternating episodes of major depression and mania. Episodes of mania are characterized by a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated mood and increased goal-oriented activity lasting at least one week. Diagnostic criteria for BD have shown two subsets of BD (BD I and BD II), which are differentiated by the severity of the manic episodes. BD I is characterized by traditional manic episodes while