Treatments for Schizophrenia

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Reviewed May 2011

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Title:   Smoking and mental illness
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   People with mental illness, like many others, often smoke because they have learned to use it as a way of dealing with feelings such as boredom or stress.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Schizophrenia
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   People with schizophrenia have times when they become severely disturbed in their behaviour, thoughts and feelings (psychosis).
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Schizophrenia medicines - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Medicines for schizophrenia can be broadly classified into older and newer antipsychotics.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Systematic Reviews of Drug Treatments for Schizophrenia
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to systematic reviews on the effectiveness of drug treatments for schizophrenia
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Mental illness and violence
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   People who are receiving treatment for a mental illness are no more violent or dangerous than anyone else. People with a mental illness are more likely to harm themselves or to be harmed. There is a weak association between violence and mental illness, especially when alcohol or drug misuse is involved. Early treatment of mental illness is the key to preventing violence.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Living with schizophrenia
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information about schizophrenia, including symptoms and treatments with information on living with schizophrenia.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Schizoaffective disorder
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Schizoaffective disorder is a combination of two mental illnesses - schizophrenia and a mood disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is classified into two subtypes: schizoaffective bipolar type and schizoaffective depressive type. Mental health professionals currently believe that schizoaffective disorder is a kind of schizophrenia.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   There are limited data on the safety of antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Reports of congenital abnormalities in the babies of women taking typical antipsychotics are uncommon, although chlorpromazine may cause symptoms in the neonate. No increased risk with atypical antipsychotics has yet emerged.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Are atypical antipsychotics advantageous? - the case against
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   This article argues that conventional antipsychotic drugs are just as effective as atypical antipsychotics.
Date:   Dec 2004
Title:   Are atypical antipsychotics advantageous? - the case for
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   This article argues that the atypical antipsychotic drugs are preferred because of their better adverse effect profile and efficacy advantages in some patients.
Date:   Dec 2004
Title:   Diabetes and antipsychotic drugs (Comments for consumers)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   People with schizophrenia have an increased chance of developing diabetes. The risk of diabetes can also be increased by some of the medicines used to treat schizophrenia.
Date:   Oct 2004
Title:   Diabetes and antipsychotic drugs
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   There is an increased risk of diabetes in patients with schizophrenia and this risk is elevated by some antipsychotic medications. The risk is greater with the atypical drugs clozapine and olanzapine and the low potency conventional antipsychotics than with risperidone or high potency conventional drugs.
Date:   Oct 2004
Title:   Schizophrenia: improving recovery - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A national study documents the devastating disability of schizophrenia experienced by patients.
Date:   Feb 2001
Title:   The new antidepressants - clinical applications
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The new antidepressants are generally as efficacious as the older tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors, but have safety advantages.
Date:   Oct 1999
Title:   New antipsychotic medications
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The introduction of clozapine, risperidone and olanzapine has improved the outcomes for patients with psychoses. The reduced extrapyramidal adverse effects of the new antipsychotic medications, compared with standard antipsychotics, make them the drugs of choice for patients with a recent onset of psychosis.
Date:   Jan 1999
Title:   New antipsychotic medications
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which affects about 3 people in every thousand. Drugs called antipsychotics are used to treat schizophrenia. Newer treatments aim to reduce the number of adverse effects.
Date:   Jan 1999
Title:   Schizophrenia and young people
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Discusses causes and symptoms of schizophrenia and its effects on young people.
Date:   May 1996

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