If your family is diagnosed with schizophrenia, you must want to know the answers to these questions.

When the psychiatrist told the patient’s family: According to our current preliminary judgment, he should have schizophrenia, which is a serious mental disease. According to his current condition, we recommend him to be hospitalized. The main treatment method for schizophrenia is drugs, and there are also some other auxiliary treatment methods. During hospitalization, our goal is to find a suitable drug and dosage for him, control the symptoms well, strive to recover to the state before the onset of the disease, then take the medicine and leave the hospital, go home and insist on taking the medicine, and regularly review the clinic. I believe that the vast majority of patients’ families will not feel very good when they hear these Read More …

What are the side effects of new antipsychotic drugs?

Last time we talked about the side effects of [typical antipsychotics] (click to view), this time we talked about the side effects of atypical antipsychotics. Last time we said that [typical antipsychotics] will block the dopamine D2 receptor to death, making it ineffective. There are many differences in [atypical antipsychotics]. Among them, some only block a part of D2 receptor, while others block and immediately release D2 receptor. Some block D2 receptor while affecting other receptors to resist some effects of blocking D2 receptor. In short, these various pharmacological effects have only one purpose, that is, to reduce various side effects of [killing 1,000 enemies and damaging 800 oneself] while controlling psychiatric symptoms. So, does it mean that atypical antipsychotic Read More …