Originally conceptualized by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer, a syndemic can be defined as “an aggregation of two or more diseases or other health conditions in a population…that exacerbates the negative health effects of…the diseases.”
Alzheimer disease patients who initiate treatment with antipsychotic medications spend more days hospitalized than those who do not initiate antipsychotics.
Patients with Parkinson disease (PD) who use inappropriate antipsychotics may be at an increased risk for pneumonia compared with patients with PD who use more appropriate atypical antipsychotics.
Previously, young adults were not covered by their parents’ private insurance plans once they were no longer full-time students, leaving a substantial number of young adults experiencing early-onset psychosis without healthcare coverage.
Awareness of differences between psychosis in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and varying presentations in patients can assist providers with diagnosis and treatment.
Sertraline and adjunctive olanzapine reduced the risk for relapse in patients with psychotic depression; however, patients experienced such adverse effects of olanzapine as weight gain.
When compared with native populations and non-refugee migrants in a host country, refugees have a particular risk of developing non-affective psychosis.
The pattern of increasing psychotic-like experiences, minority status, trauma, and family divorce were predictive of emergent mental disorders in a cohort of Chinese youth.
A phase 3 trial evaluating pimavanserin (Acadia) for the treatment of dementia-related psychosis has been stopped early due to positive findings in a planned interim efficacy analysis.
Although the number of young people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who are treated with antipsychotic drugs is low, many antipsychotic prescriptions do not appear to be clinically warranted.
