Hallucinations News

It's been a rough week. A few days ago, at UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 6-year-old Jani toppled a food cart and was confined to her room.

Auditory hallucinations are one of the more disturbing features of schizophrenia, and tend to persist even when patients are treated with conventional medication treatments.

Three antipsychotic drugs appear to work in children and teens but their risks must be weighed as the makers aim to promote the medicines for youth, U.S. drug reviewers said in documents released on Friday.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. A 2009;66 :579. King et al report the primary outcomes of a 12-week study that examined whether citalopram hydrobromide is effective for the treatment of repetitive behavior in autism.

The Medical College of Georgia is part of a large national study examining the genes of 10,000 patients with schizophrenia and 10,000 healthy individuals in an effort to pinpoint variations that can improve disease diagnosis and treatment.

Dear Dr. Gott: I read with interest your articles about medications for the elderly with dementia.

Atypical antipsychotic medications are associated with weight gain and other metabolic changes among patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent analysis of data from the NIMH-funded Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectivenessa 'Alzheimer's Disease study.

About a year ago, patients began trooping into the office of UCLA psychiatrist Andrew Leuchter, asking whether an antipsychotic drug called Abilify "might be right for them." Few appeared to be delusional, plagued by hallucinations or suffering fearsome mood swings.

A drug from H Lundbeck A/S is safe enough to win approval for some patients with schizophrenia despite concerns it may raise the risk of sudden death, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday.

" A compound that naturally occurs in the brain and other areas of the body may be a promising new treatment for the most severe and disruptive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to researchers from Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center.

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Hundreds of years ago, people with mental illness might be burned at the stake or locked away in a dungeon.

Anti-psychotic drugs commonly used to treat Alzheimer's disease may double a patient's chance of dying within a few years, suggests a new study that adds to concerns already known about such medications.

Haldol, the drug used by immigration officials to sedate deportees, is used to treat schizophrenia and such psychotic symptoms as hallucinations, delusions and hostility.

Schering-Plough Corporation today reported on new study results that demonstrated that Asenapine, a fast-dissolving, sublingual tablet being developed for treatment of schizophrenia, was more effective than ...

THE brother of Shadow Chancellor George Osborne is today exposed for supplying prescription drugs to a cocaine addicted hooker he was sleeping with.