With the availability of the so-called novel antipsychotic agents, extrapyramidal symptoms
are becoming decreasingly problematic for patients with schizophrenia, and simultaneously …

Overeating in obese individuals shares similarities with the loss of control and compulsive
drug taking behavior observed in drug-addicted subjects. The mechanism of these …

With the obesity epidemic being largely attributed to overeating, much research has been
aimed at understanding the psychological causes of overeating and using this knowledge to …

Obesity is a major public health problem. The increasing number of obese individuals in the
US adds urgency to the efforts to understand the mechanisms underlying pathological …

Baptista T. Body weight gain induced by antipsychotic drugs: mechanisms and
management. Acta Psychiatrica Scand 1999: 100: 3–16.© Munksgaard 1999. Long‐term …

Objective: To review published and nonpublished literature describing changes in weight,
glucose homeostasis, and lipid milieu with antipsychotics. Methods: A Medline search was …

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clinical relevance of
weight gain during clozapine treatment. Previous reports indicated clinically significant …

Prescriptions for second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) have surpassed those for first-
generation agents in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. While SGAs have …

The prevalence of Taql A D2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) alleles was determined in 73
obese women and men. In this sample with a mean body mass index of 35.1, the A1 (minor) …

This minireview deals with the possible roles of monoamines in feeding and feeding
disorders. The introduction sketches the results of earlier studies with local drug injections …