There is a rising burden of long-term antipsychotic prescription in general practice, however, roughly half of patients do not receive annual psychiatric review or are they captured on disease ...

A systematic review and network meta-analysis of 68 studies has found no clear evidence that any specific antipsychotic significantly improves cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia ...

Overuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes remains a hot-button issue for regulators and consumer advocacy groups. Now, one multistate nursing home chain is sharing how it has dramatically reduced the ...

However, the study revealed that two first-generation dopamine antagonists -- haloperidol (standardized mean difference [SMD] 0.04, 95% CI −0.25 to 0.33) and fluphenazine (SMD 0.15, 95% CI −0.39 to ...