Following two key federal initiatives to reduce overreliance on antipsychotic medications in nursing homes, declining exposure has occurred evenly across resident racial and ethnic groups, according ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced new strategies to help decrease the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medication in nursing homes. Those include updates to the State ...

Seroquel (quetiapine) is a prescription drug that’s used to treat schizophrenia and certain types of bipolar disorder. Seroquel may not be safe to take while pregnant or breastfeeding. Keep reading to ...

(Reuters) - The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would step up efforts to crack down on the inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs at nursing homes based on unsupported diagnoses.

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of teens and young adults are being prescribed antipsychotics, a new study suggests. In particular, it appears they’re being used to treat attention deficit and ...

I describe the practical and emotional experiences of living with oculogyric crises caused by antipsychotic use for 25 years.

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

Use of antipsychotic medications was associated with an increased risk of head injuries in a study of individuals with Alzheimer's disease. The findings are published in the Journal of the American ...

Antipsychotic medications raise the risk of head injury and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), new research shows. These new data support long-standing ...

Alderley Park, UK - July 22, 2004 – AstraZeneca announced important new data presented today at the 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in Philadelphia, which ...

Seroquel changes the levels of pharmaceuticals naturally occurring brain substances including private and dopamine. Beans had accused the company of illegally down the antipsychotic drug for patients ...