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Antipsychotics and mood stabilizers help stabilize mood of those with mania or depression.
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Antipsychotics are also used as mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar disorder, even if no symptoms of psychosis are present.
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Antipsychotics are drugs used to treat various symptoms of psychosis, such as those caused by psychotic disorders or schizophrenia.
Antipsychotics and with
Antipsychotics might also be used to counter psychosis associated with a wide range of other diagnoses, such as psychotic depression.
Antipsychotics are associated with a range of side effects.
* Antipsychotics increase the likelihood of a fatal heart attack, with the risk of death increasing with dose and the length of time on the drug.
Antipsychotics should be used with care as they can worsen catatonia and are the cause of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a dangerous condition that can mimic catatonia and requires immediate discontinuation of the antipsychotic.
Antipsychotics and other therapeutic drugs have been used with relative success.
Antipsychotics increase the severity of benzodiazepine withdrawal effects with an increase in the intensity and severity of convulsions.
Antipsychotics and mania
* Antipsychotics, which treat psychoses such as schizophrenia and mania.
Antipsychotics and .
Antipsychotics are broadly divided into two groups, the typical or first-generation antipsychotics and the atypical or second-generation antipsychotics.
Antipsychotics have also been increasingly used off-label in cases of dementia in older people, and for various disorders and difficulties in children and teenagers.
Antipsychotics are sometimes used as part of compulsory treatment via inpatient ( hospital ) commitment or outpatient commitment.
Antipsychotics are among the biggest selling and most profitable of all drugs, generating $ 22 billion in global sales in 2008.
* Antipsychotics, particularly atypicals, appear to cause diabetes mellitus and fatal diabetic ketoacidosis, especially ( in US studies ) in African Americans.
* Antipsychotics may cause pancreatitis.
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* Antipsychotics are generally a first-line treatment for delirium ; however, when delirium is caused by alcohol or sedative hypnotic withdrawal, benzodiazepines are a first-line treatment.
Antipsychotics are not recommended for benzodiazepine withdrawal ( or other CNS depressant withdrawal states ) especially clozapine, olanzapine or low potency phenothiazines e. g. chlorpromazine as they lower the seizure threshold and can worsen withdrawal effects ; if used extreme caution is required.
Antipsychotics are sometimes employed but require caution as they can worsen symptoms and have serious adverse effects.
Antipsychotics, however, fail to significantly ameliorate the negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction.
Antipsychotics are not effective against dissociatives such as PCP, DXM and Ketamine, and should not be used if these drugs are involved.
Antipsychotics, particularly haloperidol, are the most commonly used drugs for delirium and the most studied.
Antipsychotics, however, fail to significantly ameliorate the negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction.
Antipsychotics can also be injected, but this method is not as common.
mood and stabilizers
Despite the name, the off-label use of " antipsychotics " is said to involve deploying them as antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, mood stabilizers, cognitive enhancers, anti-aggressive, anti-impulsive, anti-suicidal and hypnotic ( sleep ) medications.
Medications used to treat bipolar disorder are known as mood stabilizers ; these work by reversing manic or depressive episodes and preventing relapses.
Antidepressants have not been found to be of any benefit over that found with mood stabilizers.
Carbamazepine has a potential for drug interactions ; caution should be used in combining other medicines with it, including other antiepileptics and mood stabilizers.
Acute mania in bipolar disorder is typically treated with mood stabilizers or antipsychotic medication.
Verapamil, a calcium-channel blocker, is useful in the treatment of hypomania and in those cases where lithium and mood stabilizers are contraindicated or ineffective.
Antidepressant monotherapy is not recommended for the treatment of depression in patients with bipolar disorders I or II, and no benefit has been demonstrated by combining antidepressants with mood stabilizers in these patients.
Used to treat bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers suppress swings between mania and depression.
Drugs commonly classed as mood stabilizers include:
Many agents described as " mood stabilizers " are also categorized as anticonvulsants.
The term " anticonvulsant mood stabilizers " is sometimes used to describe these as a class.
Compared with placebo, omega-3 fatty acids appear better able to augment known mood stabilizers in reducing depressive ( but perhaps not manic ) symptoms of bipolar disorder ; additional trials would be needed to establish the effects of omega-3 fatty acids alone.
Sometimes mood stabilizers are used in combination, such as lithium with one of the anticonvulsants.
Most mood stabilizers are purely antimanic agents, meaning that they are effective at treating mania and mood cycling and shifting, but are not effective at treating depression.
Use of mood stabilizers and anticonvusants such as lamotrigine, carbamazapine, valproate and others may lead to chronic folate deficiency, potentiating depression.
Most mood stabilizers are anticonvulsants, with the important exception of lithium, which is the oldest and best-known mood-stabilizing drug.
One possible downstream target of several mood stabilizers such as lithium, valproate, and carbamazepine is the arachidonic acid cascade.
Medications typically prescribed for hypomania include mood stabilizers such as valproic acid and lithium carbonate as well as atypical antipsychotics such as olanzapine and quetiapine.
Many antipsychotics are used as mood stabilizers as a drugs of choice.
Many mood stabilizers are from the drug group of anticonvulsants.
The mechanism of action of mood stabilizers is not well elucidated nor understood.
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