Behavioral and psychotic symptoms of dementia (BPSD), including delusions, hallucinations, agitation and aggression, can all occur in people with Alzheimer's disease. They appear more often in the moderate to severe stages, and if they are not...
Antipsychotics are used not only to treat schizophrenia but also bipolar disorder, psychotic depression and other psychiatric disorders. Second-generation antipsychotics, also known as "atypical antipsychotics" are often more effective and cause...
The atypical antipsychotic drugs are a group of related medicines that tend to have fewer side effects than the older, conventional antipsychotics. Although none of them have Food and Drug Administration approval for use in dementia patients, they...
Atypical antipsychotic medications have fewer side effects than traditional antipsychotic medications. Atypical antipsychotic medications have been used "off-label" to treat psychosis caused Alzheimer's disease. The term "off-label" means that the...
Diabetes is a disease in which the body is unable to remove glucose, a type of sugar, from the blood. Normally, when levels of glucose in the blood rise the pancreas secretes a hormone called insulin that causes fat and muscle cells to absorb...
Bipolar disorder often exists on a continuum of mood disturbance. In some types of bipolar disorder, psychotic features are prominent during a mood episode. One form of psychosis is paranoia, in which people think they are being watched, targeted...
There are currently two categories of psychiatric medications available to treat symptoms of psychosis. Older, or typical antipsychotics, include chlorpromazine, also called Thorazine, and other major tranquilizers. Newer, or atypical...
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is characterized by alterations between periods of depression and mania (elation and overexcitement). The symptoms of bipolar disorder are different from the typical ups and downs of everyday life...
Antipsychotic medications treat schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and treatment-resistant depression. The first antipsychotic drugs went on the market in the 1950s, and many of those are still in use today. However, a second generation of...
Solian, the brand name of amisulpride, is a medication that belongs in the family of atypical antipsychotics, which are used for the treatment of schizophrenia. The National Institutes of Health explains that atypical antipsychotics are...
Schizophrenia affects 2.4 million American adults each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. It is a chronic brain disorder characterized by bizarre delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts and behavior, and the...
The brain requires a balance of chemicals to function properly. When imbalances occur, a person is at risk for physical, as well as a variety of mental, conditions to occur. One disorder related to such imbalances is bipolar disorder. The brain...
For some anxiety sufferers, the condition impairs their lives. If anxiety-reducing techniques have not helped reduce your level of anxiety, medication may be the answer. Each type of anxiety medication interacts with different neurotransmitters,...
Anxiety affects nearly everyone in some degree, but it becomes a diagnosis of mental illness when the condition interferes or significantly affects the daily functioning of a person's life. There are several types of anxiety disorder diagnosis,...
Patients with schizophrenia, a mental health disorder that affects perception of reality, take a type of medication called antipsychotics. The Better Health Channel, a service of the State Government of Victoria, explains that two types of...
Antipsychotic drug treatment of bipolar or depression is highly dependent on the target symptoms, which present a chronic or persistent disruption to an individual's life. The underlying psychosis for prescribing antipsychotic drugs include...
Olazapine, sold under the brand name Zyprexa, falls into the category of an atypical antipsychotic medication. These medications have become very popular for treatment of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders due to...
Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder that affects both men and women; however, according to the National Institutes of Health, men develop schizophrenia earlier than women. The average age of onset is 45, though in rare cases, children as...
Children with bipolar disorder are often treated with medication to control their symptoms. According to Robert Weis in "Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychology," medication is the first step in treatment and a way to minimize mania in...
Hypomania is part of the spectrum of bipolar disorders. Bipolar disorder is characterized by fluctuations between periods of depression and periods of unusually elevated mood, which are sometimes called manic episodes. People experiencing a manic...
Psychosis refers to a variety of mental illnesses that make a person feel disconnected from reality. Those suffering with psychosis may also have very distorted views of what reality is. The most well known forms of psychosis include bipolar...
Bipolar disorder is a serious mood disorder. Everyone goes through normal ups and downs in life, sometimes feeling happy and sometimes feeling sad. People with bipolar disorder, however, have moods that swing to extremes--their depression is not...
Bipolar disease, also known as bipolar disorder, refers to a type of mental illness involving high periods of mania and low periods of depression. Much like a pendulum, a person can be sad one moment and in an extreme state of euphoria the next....
Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a mood disorder that causes the patient to have shifts between depression and mania. According to the National Institutes of Health, depression symptoms includes sadness, thoughts of death,...
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, psychotropic medications are drugs used to treat mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD....
Medication is often used to manage the symptoms of an anxiety disorder. Antidepressants, anxiolytics (anti-anxiety) and beta blocker medications are given most often, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). However, according...
Severe bipolar disorder can manifest in different ways. Sometimes, severe bipolar illness means that the behavior of the person with the disorder is disruptive to those around him or leads to harm in the person with bipolar disorder. Another way...
Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition, sometimes called "manic depression" that affects approximately 5.7 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Bipolar disorder generally appears during the late...
Psychotropic medications are drugs used to treat mental disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...
