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, ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key brain signaling pathway that appears to drive the ...

When people talk about side effects, they usually mean the ones that show up shortly after starting a medication, such as dizziness, drowsiness, or tremors. The long-term effects, which may emerge ...

Thousands of Australians struggle with serious mental health conditions. But when the recommended treatment involves antipsychotic medications, the side effects are excess kilos, which only adds ...

Antipsychotics, as their name implies, are an important part of treating psychosis, a mental state often associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, though they can also be prescribed for ...

Antipsychotic drugs—used to treat the millions of people in the U.S. with schizophrenia—have lots of unpleasant side effects. The drugs also aren't effective for many people. There is an urgent need ...

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 ...

Schizophrenia is a chronic and heterogeneous psychiatric disorder characterised by positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, negative symptoms including social withdrawal and affective ...