antipsychotics

By AMANDA SEITZ - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit against the maker of an anti-malarial drug blamed for causing psychotic behavior and neurological damage to U.S. servicemembers, ruling that the case had no right to be…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal prosecutor urged a judge on Thursday to order that a man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 be…

DENVER (AP) — Forcibly administering anti-psychotic medication to a man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others in a 2015 attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic probably will not make him well…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 could become well enough…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prison psychologist said Tuesday that a mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood…

Use of antipsychotics during pregnancy did not seem to have a significant developmental impact on babies, according to a population-based study.…

Scientists have successfully treated flies displaying behavioural problems linked to newly discovered schizophrenia-associated genes in humans, using common anti-psychotics. Schizophrenia is a severe long-term mental health condition that…