Recently there has been increased concern over the side effects of the atypical antipsychotic
drugs, including diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity. The relationship between diabetes …

Background: Previous attempts to identify clinically useful predictors of treatment outcome in
schizophrenia have been hampered by methodological inconsistencies, including a lack of …

Background: Few studies have compared long-acting injectable second-generation
antipsychotics with oral antipsychotics. Long-acting injectable antipsychotics—developed …

Objective: An unanswered question in the management of schizophrenia is how long
antipsychotic treatment should be continued after a single psychotic episode. In this study …

Background: The hyperprolactinemia induced by conventional antipsychotics often leads to
osteoporosis. The commonly used atypical antipsychotics risperidone and olanzapine vary …

Background Psychotic relapse leads to repeated hospitalization and negatively affects the
clinical prognosis of the patients. Information on prevalence of relapse among patients with …

Background: More head-to-head comparisons of antipsychotics are needed to discern the
relative efficacy and safety profiles of these compounds. Thus, we compared ziprasidone …

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of risperidone in
the treatment of patients with delirium. Method: We conducted a prospective, multicenter …

Summary Abstract Long-acting risperidone (Risperdal Consta™) is a novel, intramuscular
formulation of the atypical antipsychotic risperidone, which has shown efficacy in the …