The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to issue a decision by September 26 on the approval of KarXT, a potential first-in-class antipsychotic. If approved, it would be the first drug with a ...

Antipsychotic medication is used in schizophrenia, severe depression, elation (in bipolar disorder), and other conditions. These medications offer many benefits provided they are used with care and ...

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 ...

A class of drugs sometimes used to control symptoms of dementia appears to increase the risk of acute kidney injury in people who take it, a new study suggests. The work looks at what are called ...

The Food and Drug Administration Project PAUSE will hold a workshop exploring black box warnings on antipsychotic medication instructions, especially for older adults. The team’s directives came from ...

Since the first antipsychotic medication, chlorpromazine, was developed in the early 1950s, it could be argued that not all that much has changed in the pharmacological treatment of psychotic ...

Patients with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, often require long-term use of antipsychotic medications. Some of these drugs, however, can pose potential risks, ...