Metabolic side-effects of the novel second-generation antipsychotic drugs asenapine and iloperidone: a comparison with olanzapine.

The second generation antipsychotic (SGA) drugs are widely used in psychiatry due to their clinical efficacy and low incidence of neurological side-effects. However, many drugs in this class cause deleterious metabolic side-effects. Animal models accurately predict metabolic side-effects for SGAs wi...

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Main Authors: Heidi N Boyda, Ric M Procyshyn, Catherine C Y Pang, Erin Hawkes, Daniel Wong, Chen Helen Jin, William G Honer, Alasdair M Barr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3541274?pdf=render