Schizophrenia - Drug therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Asenapine.

30 Oct 2009 In August 2009, asenapine (Saphris; Schering-Plough) was approved by the US FDA for the acute treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in ... Read more...

Association of the glutamate transporter gene SLC1A1 with atypical antipsychotics-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Several studies have indicated that atypical antipsychotics (AAP) induce obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. Research exploring the mechanism of this phenomenon, however, has been extremely limited. Considering the indirect evidence of ... Read more...

Clinical trials design lessons from the CATIE study.

29 Sep 2009 The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to compare the effectiveness of drugs for schizophrenia. The focus here is not on its conclusions but on the knotty ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Asenapine. 30 Oct 2009
• Association of the glutamate transporter gene SLC1A1 with atypical antipsychotics-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms. 30 Oct 2009
• Trial that pays patients to take antipsychotic drugs comes under attack. 10 Oct 2009
• Clinical trials design lessons from the CATIE study. 29 Sep 2009
• The association of olanzapine-induced weight gain with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 Pro12Ala polymorphism in patients with schizophrenia. 29 Sep 2009
• Predicting age-specific dosing of antipsychotics. 29 Sep 2009
• Effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs on gene expression profiles in the liver of schizophrenia subjects. 14 Sep 2009
• Asenapine approved for treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Clinical and economic ramifications of switching antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia. 31 Aug 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Aug 2009
• Aripiprazole: dose-response relationship in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Nasal bleeding associated with fluoxetine and risperidone interaction: a case report. 30 Aug 2009
• Motor circuit abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia assessed with transcranial magnetic stimulation. 30 Aug 2009
• Factors influencing the choice of new generation antipsychotic medication in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2009
• Positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 for the treatment of schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of antipsychotic treatments on the motivation to eat: preliminary results in 153 schizophrenic patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Efficacy and tolerability of switching to ziprasidone from olanzapine, risperidone or haloperidol: an international, multicenter study. 30 Aug 2009
• FDA panel OKs 3 antipsychotic drugs for pediatric use, cautions against overuse. 24 Aug 2009
• The unchanging mortality gap for people with schizophrenia. 20 Aug 2009
• 11-year follow-up of mortality in patients with schizophrenia: a population-based cohort study (FIN11 study). 20 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Schizophrenia'

Definition: A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Descriptor UI: D012559

Alternative terms: Schizophrenia; Schizophrenias; Dementia Praecox; Schizophrenic Disorders; Disorder, Schizophrenic; Disorders, Schizophrenic; Schizophrenic Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.750;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics