Mental disorders frequently begin in childhood or adolescence. Psychotropic medications
have various indications for the treatment of mental disorders in this age group and are used …

Importance Antipsychotics are used increasingly in youth for nonpsychotic and off-label
indications, but cardiometabolic adverse effects and (especially) type 2 diabetes mellitus …

Context Although antipsychotic treatment has recently increased, little is known about how
this development has differentially affected the office-based care of adults and young people …

Importance The increased prescribing of antipsychotics for children and youth has
heightened concerns that this practice increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus …

Antipsychotic medications are critical to child and adolescent psychiatry, from the
stabilization of psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychotic …

Schizophrenia is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with genetic and environmental
etiologies. Prenatal viral/bacterial infections and inflammation play major roles in the …

Objective: Some atypical antipsychotics are associated with metabolic side effects, which
are risk factors for gestational diabetes. The authors examined the risk of developing …

Over the last decades, an increase in antipsychotic (AP) prescribing and a shift from first-
generation antipsychotics (FGA) to second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) among youth …

Second–generation antipsychotics (SGAPs) and second–generation antidepressants
(SGADs) have multiple US Food and Drug Administration–approved indications and are …

Background: The use of antidepressants has been on the rise among adolescents and
young adults, populations also increasingly at risk for type 2 diabetes. However, the …