Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD The prescription antipsychotic Abilify (aripiprazole) can cause side effects such as headache, nausea, and constipation. Most of these side effects are ...

Antipsychotics can be life-changing for anyone experiencing psychosis, including people with schizophrenia. But they can also come with challenging side effects. Older, first-generation antipsychotics ...

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, ...

Donald Goff, Jeffrey Lieberman, and colleagues recently published a review article entitled “The Long-Term Effects of Antipsychotic Medication on Clinical Course in Schizophrenia” in the American ...

The HKUMed research team, led by Professor Francisco Lai Tsz-tsun (right), uses Hong Kong big data to identify rare side effects from antipsychotic medications through cross-disciplinary collaboration ...

I know first-hand why people go off antipsychotics, and why it is hard to stay on them. I went off of them twice on my own and paid dearly for it. I know many others who go through similar issues, ...

Schizophrenia patients on antipsychotics lost significantly more weight and had a greater reduction in HbA1c with 1 mg semaglutide than placebo. Patients with severe psychiatric disorders and those ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Thursday approved a new kind of drug to treat schizophrenia, a breakthrough after 70 years of incremental innovation that appears to avoid side effects that ...

A large meta-analysis reveals that most antipsychotics achieve near-maximal efficacy at the lower end of recommended dose ranges, typically around 3-5 mg/d of risperidone equivalents.