The day I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I was prescribed an antipsychotic. Over time, this turned into a regimen of two different antipsychotics, along with mood stabilizers and antidepressants ...

While treatments for cancer and heart disease have advanced in leaps and bounds, psychiatry continues to use the drugs that ...

A new study has found that adults with depression who start treatment with newer antipsychotic medications may face a higher ...

A psychiatrist and a patient respond to an article in Science Times. Also: A plea to Congress; an upside-down definition of ...

Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome is associated with an increased rate of severe intraoperative complications and greater ...

The research team reviewed data from 309,378 people who were first diagnosed with a severe mental illness in the UK between 2000–2017, 212,618 (68.7%) of whom were prescribed an antipsychotic ...

“Previously, patients thought to be eligible for LAIs — also reflected in past guidelines — were chronically ill patients, those with multiple relapses, established nonadherence, or patients ...

Hampton Roads isn’t alone in its overreliance on ADHD diagnoses and psychotropic drugs to handle troublesome schoolchildren, ...

Heston Blumenthal, the celebrity chef known for his experimental cuisine, recently shared his experience of being sectioned ...