The benefits of antipsychotic medications are sometimes obscured by their adverse effects.
These effects range from relatively minor tolerability issues (eg, mild sedation or dry mouth) …

Introduction Drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) and tardive dyskinesia (TD) are stigmatizing
movement disorders associated with exposure to dopamine receptor blocking agents such …

The British Association for Psychopharmacology developed an evidence-based consensus
guideline on the management of catatonia. A group of international experts from a wide …

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With
Schizophrenia seeks to reduce these substantial psychosocial and public health …

One of the most widely used guides to prescribing psychiatric medications, the Tenth Edition
of Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines returns with fully updated content and new sections on …

From its inception, the pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs was inextricably linked to the
movement-inhibiting or “neuroleptic” properties of these agents. 1 Chlorpromazine and other …

Objectives: Safety monitoring is an important aspect of bipolar disorder treatment, as mood‐
stabilising medications have potentially serious side effects, some of which may also …

Oculogyric crisis (OGC) describes the clinical phenomenon of sustained dystonic, conjugate
and typically upward deviation of the eyes lasting from seconds to hours. It was initially …

BackgroundThe pharmacological management of violence in people with psychiatric
disorders is under-researched. AimsTo compare interventions commonly used for …

Although the origins of antipsychotic pharmacology began with the search for compounds to
improve anesthesia, clinicians reported unusual “psychic indifference” as the defining effect …