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Antipsychotic drugs therapy

Voruganti, L. N. P. 8t Awad, A. G. (2002). Personal evaluation of transitions in treatment (PETiT) a scale to measure subjective aspects of antipsychotic drug therapy in schizophrenia. Schizophr. Res., 56, 37-46. [Pg.134]

PCP intoxication is unpredictable, and talk-down therapy is not recommended. Sensory input should be minimized. Antianxiety and/or antipsychotic drug therapy may be necessary if behavior is uncontrollable. [Pg.844]

Indications include a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, in the first place schizophrenia, organic psychoses and other acute psychotic illnesses. However they are also of use for the manic phase of bipolar affective disorder and for psychotic depression. Under antipsychotic drug therapy patients become less agitated and restless, withdrawn and autistic patients may become more communicative, aggressive and impulsive behavior diminishes and hallucinations and disordered thinking disappear. [Pg.349]

Levodopa is widely used for treatment of all types of parkinsonism except those associated with antipsychotic drug therapy. However, as parkinsonism progresses, the duration of benefit from each dose of levodopa may shorten (wearing-off effect). Patients can also develop sudden, unpredictable fluctuations between mobility and immobility (on-off effect). In a matter of minutes, a patient enjoying normal or nearly normal mobility may suddenly develop a severe degree of parkinsonism. These symptoms are likely due to the... [Pg.368]

Analogous to the recent progress in antidepressant and antipsychotic drug therapy development the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder is also experiencing major advances. Data on the efficacy of mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder focus on the following ... [Pg.192]

FIGURE 8-2 Extrapyramidal side effects and their relative onset after beginning antipsychotic drug therapy. [Pg.99]

Akathisia A feeling of extreme motor restlessness and an inability to sit still may occur because of antipsychotic drug therapy. [Pg.625]

Two decades ago, there was a growing awareness of the inappropriateness and harmfulness of prescribing neuroleptics to elderly patients ( Antipsychotic Drug Therapy, 1988 Gomez et al., 1990 Sherman, 1987). The use of neuroleptics for the behavioral control of the elderly produces toxicity even more readily than in younger patients, and it cannot substitute for needed human services. Sherman (1987) called into question the pharmaceutical company practice of placing advertisements for neuroleptics like Haldol and Navane in journals with a geriatric-practice orientation. [Pg.38]

Antipsychotic drug therapy poses hazards for elderly. (1988). Drug Utilization Review, 4, 73-84. [Pg.465]

Mitchell JE, Popkin MK. Antipsychotic drug therapy and sexual dysfunction in men. Am J Psychiatry 1982 139(5) 633-7. [Pg.250]

Mitchell JE. Discontinuation of antipsychotic drug therapy. Psychosomatics 1981 22(3) 241-7. [Pg.251]

Hallucinogen intoxication is treated in a manner similar to stimulant intoxication. Drug therapy often can be avoided because patients may respond to careful reassurance, or so-called talk-down therapy. When necessary, short-term antianxiety and/or antipsychotic drug therapy can be used, as described previously. The same approach applies to marijuana and inhalant intoxication. [Pg.1187]

PCP intoxication is more unpredictable and more difficult to treat than other psychosis-producing drugs. Most clinicians suggest that sensory input be minimized to the extent possible thus talk-down therapy is not recommended and may in fact make the patient worse. If PCP intoxication is suspected, patients should be left alone in a quiet, dimly lit room. If behavior is uncontrollable, antianxiety and/or antipsychotic drug therapy may be necessary. [Pg.1187]

This syndrome is a combination of symptomatic effects produced by antipsychotic drug therapy. Symptoms and signs include hyperpyrexia, muscle rigidity, altered mental status (e.g., catatonia) and cardiovascular instability (e.g., unstable heart rate and blood pressure). Acute renal failure may ultimately occur. Diagnostic signs include elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and myoglobinuria. [Pg.58]

The belladonna alkaloids and related muscarinic receptor antagonists have long been used in parkinsonism. These agents can be effective adjuncts to treatment with levodopa see Chapter 20). Muscarinic receptor antagonists also are used to treat the extrapyramidal symptoms that commonly occur as side effects of conventional antipsychotic drug therapy see Chapter 18). Certain antipsychotic drugs are relatively potent muscarinic receptor antagonists, and these cause fewer extrapyramidal side effects. [Pg.120]

Tyrer P, Kendall T. The spurious advance of antipsychotic drug therapy. Lancet 2009 373(9657) 4-5. [Pg.117]

CarroU RW, Christodoulou P, Baynes KC, Kahn DA. Hyperprolactinemia in a patient with a pituitary adenoma receiving antipsychotic drug therapy. J Psychiatr Pract 2012 18(2) 126-9. [Pg.78]


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