Commonly used atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antidepressants often cause some degree of weight gain.
Drug Types- Atypical Antipsychotic, Mood Stabilizer, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Newer Antidepressant, Other Antidepressant, Benzodiazepine Group, Non-Benzodiazepine Anxolytic, Anti-Parkinsonian, and 'No Medication'.
At the time of the study, most patients received, depending on the disease, a stable medication, including typical and atypical neuroleptics, mood stabilizers, and benzodiazepines.
Comparing the treatments prescribed at discharge with those received by the patients before admission, a high increase in the prescription of antipsychotics, mainly atypical, and mood stabilizers is observed.
Considering the type of psychotropic medication, both DD and SMI groups were taking more typical and atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics and than the SUD group (χ ≥ 8.864; p ≥ 0.012).
For assessment purposes the drugs were divided into the common groups of psychotropic drugs: antidepressants (tricyclics, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs] and serotonin and norepinephrine selective reuptake inhibitors [SNRIs]), benzodiazepines, antipsychotics (conventional and atypical) and mood stabilizers.
The patients were diagnosed according to DSM-IV [ 9], and the diagnoses were classified into psychoses (schizophrenia, delusional, schizoaffective, and schizophreniform disorders, and atypical psychoses), mood disorders (including bipolar disorders), and other diagnoses.
[ 3] Women are more likely to present with "atypical" depression, including mood reactivity (mood that brightens in response to actual or potentially positive events), significant weight gain or increase in appetite, hypersomnia, heavy leaden feelings in the arms or legs, and long-standing patterns of sensitivity to interpersonal rejection.
Stimulants, typical and atypical antipsychotics and mood stabilizers are the medical agents used to treat CD and aggression.
Novick et al. [ 36] argued that anxiety is even a more central feature to atypical depression than mood reactivity.
