There’s renewed debate over rules for nursing homes that sedate dementia patients.

Seventy-two years after the first antipsychotic, Thorazine, was approved, psychiatry is now seriously discussing the need to ...

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 ...

One of the nation’s top nursing home regulators is opposed to broadening exclusions for the use of antipsychotic medications, he told attendees of a national conference Friday. Asked whether the ...

Use of sedating medications in long term care homes has continued to grow since the pandemic and Canadians with dementia are ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

The use of antipsychotic medications for purposes other than those officially approved is common among older adults in Finland. This emerges from a large registry study conducted by the University of ...

Initiation of antipsychotics was nearly 3 times more common in patients with Parkinson disease vs controls, with the incidence rate found to increase approximately 4 years prior to PD diagnosis.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians should use caution when prescribing antipsychotics and benzodiazepines to treat patients with ...

Antipsychotic use in older adults with dementia is associated with a significant increased risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, fracture, acute kidney injury, and a range ...

In a recent British Medical Journal study, researchers assess the adverse effects associated with the use of antipsychotic drugs in people with dementia. Study: Multiple adverse outcomes associated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with schizophrenia had greater risk for severe respiratory infections while on antipsychotics. Patients ...