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Can you tell me about drugs used to treat schizophrenia?

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Different ones: Antipsychotic medications are used to treat the hallucinations and delusions associated with schizophrenia. There are 20 different ones. Treatment for schizophrenia is best provided by a board certified psychiatrist. Antipsychotic medications require careful monitoring, especially as schizophrenia is a chronic condition. I like Invega sustenna (paliperidone palmitate) which is an injection that lasts one month.

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Antipsychotics: Clozapine (Clozaril), lurasidone (Latuda), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal), Paliperidone (Invega), iloperidone (Fanapt), asenapine (Saphris), & ziprasidone (Geodon) are antipsychotic meds that can be used to treat Schizophrenia. Antipsychotics help reduce the excess levels of dopamine which are found with Schizophrenia by binding to dopamine receptors.

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