Guidance

Antipsychotic medicines: licensed products, uses and side effects

Antipsychotic drugs available in the UK, their side effects and their effect on dementia patients.

Documents

Pharmacovigilance Working Party Public Assessment Report on neuroleptics and cardiac safety

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Pharmacovigilance Working Party Public Assessment Report on antipsychotics and cerebrovascular accident

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Details

This guidance explains how antipsychotics work and the antipsychotics that are licensed for use in the UK. It also examines some main side effects of this type of medicine and including risks associated with the use of antipsychotics in elderly people with dementia.

Published 25 August 2005