Antipsychotic

Genetics and the age of the parents of the schizophrenic have been found to be active in the development of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is regarded as a lifelong disorder. Consequently, ongoing treatment is required for symptom containment. Antipsychotic medication plays a large role in alleviating symptoms and improving the person’s functionality. Besides the lack of definitive answers for the cause and cure of schizophrenia, researchers have greatly progressed in their studies to answer…

investigated is a meta-analysis of 150 double-blind trials.(18) A substantial 21 533 people participated across these mostly, short-term trials. The main aim of this study was to compare and contrast the overall effectiveness of 9 second-generation antipsychotics with the first-generation drug, Haloperidol. Due to the limitations of this SSM I will be interpreting results concerning Clozapine and Risperidone exclusively. The comparisons made were regarding efficacy in symptoms, relapse rates,…

The disorder that I choose would have to be Anorexia, Antipsychotic medication used for Anorexia that Im choosing. These drugs are used to treat depression, and I believe that depression is one cause of Anorexia, along with others but is one when someone has depression they don't even want to eat anymore and so I believe that depression and Anorexia are associated in that case, the case that Anorexia is the extreme of depression in other words because I believe that depression could get to an…

Imagine hearing voices that nobody else could hear and believing that people could read your mind. That is what schizophrenia does to yo Imagine hearing voices that nobody else could hear and believing that people could read your mind. That is what schizophrenia does to you. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Over 2.2 million people suffer from schizophrenia in the United States. ("Schizophrenia Facts and Statistics.”) Developing…

There are many newer antipsychotic medications available since the 1990’s, including Seroquel, Risperdal, Zyprexa and Clozaril. Some of these medications may work on both the serotonin and dopamine receptors, thereby treating both the “positive” and “negative” symptoms of schizophrenia. Other newer antipsychotics are referred to as atypical antipsychotics, because of how they affect the dopamine receptors in the brain. These newer medications…

Its exact mechanism hasn’t been established but its effects resemble to those of phenothiazines and fluphenazine , so that it belongs to the antipsychotic drugs that cause sedation and hypotension but have a great ability to produce extrapyramidal reactions. - Fluanxol depot has alerting , antipsychotic and anxiolytic effects. This antipsychotic effect of neuroleptics is related to their dopamine receptor blocking effects which seems to release a chain reaction such as other influenced…

schizophrenia treated with typical antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics”, they authors trying to gather data based on the annoyances of side-effects and psychotic symptoms with taking typical and atypical antipsychotics and with the satisfaction with medication of patients with schizophrenia. They also assessed atypical antipsychotics were superior to typical antipsychotics based on subjective indices. Typical antipsychotics are also known as first generation antipsychotics drugs these…

Antipsychotic meds are fundamentally used to oversee psychosis. "Psychosis" is used to portray conditions that influence the brain, and in which there has been some loss of contact with reality, frequently including delusions (false, rigid convictions) or hallucinations and Thought disorder. A portion of the first-generation antipsychotics include: Chlorpromazine, Haloperidol, Perphenazine, Fluphenazine etc. More current or second era meds are additionally called "atypical" antipsychotics. A…

A mood disorder is psychological disorder that involves the elevating or lowering of a person’s mood. Among the many mood disorders schizophrenia is one the most severe. Schizophrenia is a severe chronic mood disorder which causes people to interpret reality in an abnormal way. Victims of schizophrenia report hearing voices other people cannot hear or they say they feel someone else is controlling them. There is no single cause but several factors have been determined. There is no cure but there…

hormones in men and women can impact the effects of schizophrenia differently for each party. There is also a gender related difference in the white matter structure of the brain for early onset schizophrenic patients. Thirdly, the response to antipsychotic drugs varies between males and females. Another way that gender differences are seen in schizophrenia is through fMRI scans of cerebral activation. Lastly, MRIs of the temporal lobe structure show that there are gender differences. These…