A recent study highlights a surprising potential benefit of diabetes and obesity drugs, GLP-1 receptor agonists, in improving ...

Psychotropic medications are drugs that affect the mind, emotions, and behavior. The broad categories of psychotropic medications, which we will break down further, include: antidepressants, ...

Many of the psychiatric medications have side effects. Weight gain is a common one. Atypical or second-generation antipsychotics are notorious for causing weight gain. Atypical antipsychotics are ...

Early onset IBD activity correlates with higher psychiatric diagnoses and psychotropic medication use. Active IBD patients have increased odds of developing major depressive disorder, anxiety, and ...

The widespread use of psychotropic drugs to treat people experiencing mental illness does not always correspond to their effectiveness or real need. Driving this is a complex web of factors including ...

Huntington's disease symptom control relies on medications for involuntary movements, mood, and psychiatric symptoms, but ...

Myriad Genetics, Inc. announced that a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology found that the GeneSight® Psychotropic Test significantly reduced psychiatric hospitalizations in ...

New research shows that people who take certain psychiatric medications may be more likely to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is the most common form of motor neurone disease (MND).