An international adult guideline for making clozapine titration safer by using six ancestry-based personalized dosing titrations, CRP, and clozapine levels

J De Leon, G Schoretsanitis, RL Smith… - …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
This international guideline proposes improving clozapine package inserts worldwide by
using ancestry-based dosing and titration. Adverse drug reaction (ADR) databases suggest …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment resistance in psychiatry: state of the art and new directions

OD Howes, ME Thase, T Pillinger - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment resistance affects 20–60% of patients with psychiatric disorders; and is
associated with increased healthcare burden and costs up to ten-fold higher relative to …

The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: a blueprint for protecting physical health in people with mental illness

J Firth, N Siddiqi, AI Koyanagi, D Siskind… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background The poor physical health of people with mental illness is a multifaceted,
transdiagnostic, and global problem. People with mental illness have an increased risk of …

Dopamine and glutamate in schizophrenia: biology, symptoms and treatment

RA McCutcheon, JH Krystal, OD Howes - World Psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glutamate and dopamine systems play distinct roles in terms of neuronal signalling, yet both
have been proposed to contribute significantly to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. In …

The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management

M Maj, J van Os, M De Hert, W Gaebel… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current management of patients with primary psychosis worldwide is often remarkably
stereotyped. In almost all cases an antipsychotic medication is prescribed, with second …

[HTML][HTML] Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends

M Sabe, T Pillinger, S Kaiser, C Chen, H Taipale… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes over 50 years of research on antipsychotics in schizophrenia have
occurred. A scientometric synthesis of such changes over time and a measure of …

20‐year follow‐up study of physical morbidity and mortality in relationship to antipsychotic treatment in a nationwide cohort of 62,250 patients with schizophrenia …

H Taipale, A Tanskanen, J Mehtälä… - World …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Antipsychotics are effective in preventing relapses of schizophrenia, but it is generally
believed that their long‐term use is harmful for patients' physical well‐being. However, there …

Economics and mental health: the current scenario

M Knapp, G Wong - World Psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Economics and mental health are intertwined. Apart from the accumulating evidence of the
huge economic impacts of mental ill‐health, and the growing recognition of the effects that …

Antipsychotics: mechanisms underlying clinical response and side-effects and novel treatment approaches based on pathophysiology

SJ Kaar, S Natesan, R Mccutcheon, OD Howes - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Antipsychotic drugs are central to the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders but are ineffective for some patients and associated with side-effects and …

Improving outcomes of first‐episode psychosis: an overview

P Fusar‐Poli, PD McGorry, JM Kane - World psychiatry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Outcomes of psychotic disorders are associated with high personal, familiar, societal and
clinical burden. There is thus an urgent clinical and societal need for improving those …