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3 lip 2024 · The medications doctors prescribe most often for schizophrenia are called antipsychotics. They ease symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. These drugs work by changing how your brain uses...
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13 wrz 2021 · Our dose-response meta-analysis explores the dose-response curves and near-maximum effective doses of 16 antipsychotics for patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia based on RCTs.
16 paź 2024 · Antipsychotic medicines are the most prescribed drugs. They're thought to control symptoms mainly by affecting brain receptors for different neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers. Most antipsychotic medications act on dopamine and serotonin receptors.
27 cze 2024 · This topic addresses the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia in the maintenance phase of treatment and the management of side effects of medication. Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis are discussed separately.
8 maj 2015 · For schizophrenia, a dose range of 37–148 mg daily is recommended, with a lower dose range of 18.5–120 mg daily, recommended for bipolar depression (lurasidone at lower doses of 20–60 mg daily has been shown to be as clinically efficacious in bipolar depression, as at the higher dose range of 80–100 mg/day).
Weaker recommendations (ie, WFSBP-grade 2) could be drawn for sarcosine (2 g/day) and minocycline (200–300 mg/day) for improving negative symptoms in chronic schizophrenia (not early schizophrenia), and NAC for improving positive symptoms and cognition.
Recommended doses, based on an international consensus survey, for the most frequently prescribed antipsychotic drugs are displayed in table 1.13 Patients with first-episode schizophrenia as well as older patients often require lower doses. The onset of symptom improvement may vary considerably between individual patients.
