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This is a list of psychiatric medications used by psychiatrists and other physicians to treat mental illness or distress. The list is ordered alphabetically according to the condition or conditions, then by the generic name of each medication. The list is not exhaustive and not all drugs are used regularly in all countries.
A monograph by Eugen Bleuler on dementia praecox (1911). Dementia praecox (meaning a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.
A 2015 review found that in the United States, about 4% of violence is attributable to people diagnosed with mental illness, [239] and a 2014 study found that 7.5% of crimes committed by mentally ill people were directly related to the symptoms of their mental illness. [240] The majority of people with serious mental illness are never violent ...
The results of a new large-scale study published in The BMJ suggest that a relatively new diabetes drug might reduce the risk of developing dementia in people with type 2 diabetes.
Here’s what to know and how you can help support your brain health.
Older adults with diabetes are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. New research suggests that blood sugar stability, measured by HbA1c time in range ...
Type 3 diabetes is a proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [1] Specifically, the term refers to a set of common biochemical and metabolic features seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, and in other tissues in diabetes; [1] [2] it may thus be considered a "brain-specific type of diabetes."
Some drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes could also help lower a person’s risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. Image credit: martin-dm/Getty Images.