Psychopharmacology

Traditionally, the distinction between typical antipsychotics and atypical or second generation antipsychotics, such as quetiapine, olanzapine and risperidone, has been used; nevertheless, at present...

Schizophrenia and other similar psychotic disorders are old names for psychology and medicine. Different researchers have proposed different ways of understanding this type of disorders, which...

In antiquity, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders had a treatment that allowed to fight the different symptoms and perceptive and cognitive alterations.This would change with the discovery of the...

Antipsychotic drugs have been shown to be effective in reducing the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia, mainly hallucinations and delusions; However, this type of medication often causes...

The treatment of different mental disorders can be carried out through different ways. One of them has to do with the modification of brain chemistry through the use of psychotropic drugs, generating...

The first tricyclic antidepressant in history was imipramine, which appeared in 1951. Although this and other tricyclics were the drugs most commonly used to treat depression for many decades, they...

The fourth-generation antidepressants, which act specifically on certain neurotransmitters to prevent adverse reactions as far as possible, are being prescribed more and more frequently. However,...

Vitamin D is very important for humans, being essential for the absorption of calcium and having a large participation in systems such as nervous, musculoskeletal or immune system.It also influences...

Numerous media have reported the growing use and abuse of psychoactive drugs in our society. Benzodiazepines are the most commonly used medications to deal with anxiety disorders, serving a support...

The effects of anxiety states maintained in the long term can put an emotional strain on the patient and also interfere in all aspects of daily life. In order to avoid its symptoms and the...