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sNDA Submitted: Lumateperone for the Prevention of Relapse in Schizophrenia

Psychiatric Times

The safety profile of Caplyta remains consistent, with headache as the most common adverse event. An sNDA for Caplyta as adjunctive therapy in major depressive disorder is under FDA review, showing robust efficacy in phase 3 studies. The most commonly reported adverse events were somnolence/sedation, dizziness, nausea, and dry mouth.

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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. Health care professionals should monitor the child’s growth and development and provide necessary interventions to mitigate weight loss.” FDA Drug Safety Communication.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

of patients who were prescribed antipsychotics for their psychiatric illness and had evidence of tardive dyskinesia (TD) had TD recorded properly in their electronic health records, supporting the idea that TD is often underreported and misdiagnosed and, therefore, not treated appropriately. References 1. Griffiths K, Won Y, Lee Z, et al.

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TSND-201 Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation From FDA for PTSD

Psychiatric Times

The treatment demonstrated a favorable safety profile, with most adverse events being transient and resolving on the same day. Most of the reported adverse events were transient and occurred on the day that the participant received the dose, and most events resolved that same day. " 1 Murray B.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

If one wishes to understand an idea such as neuroplasticity, or the logistics of synaptic transmission, or the ramifications of an event like enzyme inhibition or competitive receptor binding, it helps to explain in concrete terms the jobs of key players in a given system. First, let’s differentiate conceptual from sheer factual content.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Mad in America

17:650 They wrote that the lack of compliance is worst for psychoses, which leads to lack of recovery, relapse and readmissions, and that the patients must understand that the diseases will have health and social consequences if the treatment is not being followed. They are restricted uneducational grants, as their purpose is to buy doctors.