46 results about "Antipsychotic" patented technology

The present invention relates to a new method of treatment for persons meeting diagnoses for major depressive disorder, or other unipolar (non-bipolar, non-psychotic and non-treatment resistant) depression. The method comprises administering a combination of two categories of drugs, antipsychotics or dopamine system stabilizers, in combination with a newer antidepressant such as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, as initial treatment or as soon as possible. The method targets the prevention of suicide, and provides other benefits including preventing disease progression development of tolerance toward the antidepressants. Another aspect of the invention relates to using the method for alleviating cognitive distortion and related functional impairment or health risks, and / or using the method for smoking cessation or nicotine withdrawal.

Methods of treating headache with antipsychotics are provided. A kit for treating headache is also provided, comprising an antipsychotic and a device for rapid delivery of the antipsychotic.

Hypodermic syringes with multiple needles are used to practice a method of calming psychiatric patients. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention generally used to calm violent adult patients, the syringe has a first barrel containing an antipsychotic, a second barrel containing a sedating antihistamine and a third barrel containing an antianxiety sedative. Each barrel also has a separate projecting needle and contains a piston. A common operator, preferably in the form of a plunger simultaneously pushes all of the pistons so that the patient receives three injections simultaneously. For children, a second embodiment of the syringe includes two barrels instead of three, each barrel containing a separate medication. In each embodiment the syringe is packaged in a manually openable plastic envelope with a safety cap over the needles.

The present invention relates to the compound of formula which is 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-piperidine-1-carboxylic acid(4-methoxy-7-morpholin-4-yl-benzothiazol-2-yl)-amide, and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. It has been found that the compound is useful for the treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD (attention deficit hyper-activity disorder), drug addiction to amphetamines, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, or cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischemia, seizure, substance abuse, or for use as muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardioprotective agents.

Methods and compositions are provided for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, attention deficit disorder, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and bipolar disorder. The methods entail administering to a patient diagnosed as having a neuropsychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, depression, attention deficit disorder, mild cognitive impairment, dementia bipolar disorder, etc.) or as at risk for a neuropsychiatric disorder a benzoic acid, benzoic acid salt, and / or benzoic acid derivative, and / or a sorbic acid, sorbic acid salt, and / or sorbic acid derivative, in combination with a neuropharmacological agent (e.g., an antipsychotic, an antidepressant, medications for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, cognitive impairment, or dementia, etc.) where the benzoic acid, benzoic acid salt, or benzoic acid derivative, and / or a sorbic acid, sorbic acid salt, and / or sorbic acid derivative, is in an amount sufficient to increase the efficacy of the neuropharmacological agent.

Heteroarylpiperidines, pyrrolidines, and piperazines are useful as antipsychotic and analgesic agents. The compounds are especially useful for treating psychoses by administering to a mammal a psychoses-treating effective amounts of one of the compounds. The compounds are also useful as analgesics by administering a pain-relieving effective amount of one of the compounds to a mammal.

The present invention has utilized the power of lipidomics to profile lipid metabolites and to characterize changes in lipid metabolism as they relate to CNS disorders. Lipidomic signatures can guide the development of diagnostic, prognostic and surrogate markers for CNS disorders; identification of new targets for drug design based on highlighted perturbed pathways; stratify patients with CNS disorders as to which pathways are impaired, and facilitate the determination of which patients with CNS disorders are candidates for a particular therapy, i.e. provide the tools for a personalized approach to therapy; identify which patients are responding or are developing side effects to a treatment; design of modified antipsychotics that have less metabolic side effects and enhanced activity; overcome the lag phase in response to some treatments; and find better combination therapies for CNS disorders that target the pathways that are impaired (e.g., impairments in lipid and / or carbohydrate metabolism).

The invention relates to methods and compositions for treating schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (in particular, mania) by using a combination of a synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) inhibitor and an antipsychotic or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates, polymorphs thereof. In some embodiments, the methods and the compositions are for treating one or more positive and / or negative symptoms, as well as cognitive impairment, associated with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (in particular, mania).

The present invention provides, inter alia, methods for treating or ameliorating the effects of a glioma. Methods of this invention include administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a first active agent, such as e.g., an angiotensin receptor blocker, an antifungal agent, a bisphosphonate, an oxytocin inhibitor, an interleukin-1 (IL-1) inhibitor, a cyclooxygenase inhibitor, an α2δ voltage-dependent calcium channel (VDCC) inhibitor, a dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor, a calcium channel blocker, a renal sodium-chloride symporter inhibitor, an a2 adrenergic agonist, a phenothiazine antipsychotic, a calcineurin inhibitor, a 5-HT agonist, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, a direct rennin inhibitor, or combinations thereof, and a second active agent, which is a chemotherapeutic agent. Compositions for treating or ameliorating the effects of a glioma are also provided.

The invention relates to a synthesis method for 2-methoxyl-4-amino-5-ethylsulfonylbenzoic acid which is an important immediate for antipsychotics Amisulpride. The method uses 2-methoxyl-4-methyl anthranilate as raw material, and carries out amino protection, sulphurization, deamination protection, chloridization, reduction, thylization, esterolysis and crystallization, and then the 2-methoxyl-4-amine-5-ethylsulfonylbenzoic acid is prepared. The method uses common reagents with easy obtainment as reaction mediums, the reaction condition is high, and the prepared product has the advantages of high purity and high yield, and is suitable for industrialization production.

The present invention relates to a synergistic combination of an alpha7 (α7) nicotinic agonist and an antipsychotic agent.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine for treating schizophrenia and treating the side effect caused by antipsychotics and a preparation method thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine comprises the following raw medicines according to the proportion by weight: 10-17 ophiopogon roots, 7-14 medlar, 3-10 earthworms, 10-18 kudzu roots, 3-10 arillus longan, 7-14 lycopodium calvatum, 4-11 lotus leaf, 7-14 flos albiziae, 3-10 chrysoidine, 4-11 dates, 4-14 grass-leaved sweetflag, 4-11 radix curcumae and 7-14 liquorice. The dosage form comprises granules, sirup, tablets, capsules and oral liquid. The preparation method is as follows: adding water to boil to obtain liquid medicine, concentrating, filtering, adding antiseptic, subpackaging and sterilizing to obtain the oral liquid. The traditional Chinese medicine has the functions of nourishing Yin and clearing away the heart fire, tonifying the kidney and the brain as well as promoting blood circulation and removing obstruction in channels and the advantages of low cost, remarkable curative effect and no side effect, thereby achieving the aims of mainly treating muffing, fremitus, lags in response, witless expression, retardation of thinking, achexia, fidgety and confusion, talk nonsense, uncommunication, hygrostomia and indifference of patients suffering from schizophrenia, improving the memory impairment, promoting the recovery of psychopathy and preventing or reducing the recrudescency of psychopathy.

The present invention relates to compounds of formulae IA and IB wherein R1 and R2 are each independently lower alkyl or —(CH2)m—O-lower alkyl, or together with the N atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring; R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 is lower alkyl; hetaryl is 3H-imidazole-2,4-diyl or 1H-pyrazole-1,4-diyl; n is 1 or 2; and m is 1 or 2; and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. These compounds may be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD, drug addiction, such as amphetamine, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischaemia, seizure and substance abuse, or for use as sedatives, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardiaprotective agents for coronary artery disease and heart failure.

The invention discloses a high-dispersity composition of low-dose drugs and a preparation method of the high-dispersity composition, aiming to solve the problem that existing preparation methods for the low-dose drugs cannot meet requirements on content uniformity and influences of parameter change amplification in the production process on physicochemical properties of the low-dose drugs are remarkable. The high-dispersity composition and the preparation method thereof have the advantages that the low-dose drugs are prepared by the twin-screw extrusion technology for the first time; Vitamin Danalogue drugs, glucocorticoid drugs, antipsychotics, antipyretic and analgesic drugs and other low-dose drugs are screened as research objects; preparation of solid preparations through a twin-screwextruder is studied deeply; the content uniformity meets requirements of the pharmacopeia.

The present invention comprises methods and pharmaceutical compositions for intranasal delivery of effective amounts of DFO directly to the CNS, in particular the brain treatments that inhibit GSK3b in patients with psychiatric disorders including, but not limited to, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD and schizophrenia. In addition a treatment composition is disclosed which comprises DFO and in certain embodiments combines DFO with one or more of the psychotropic drug types, i.e., antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants. Moreover, a treatment for treating impairment of neural plasticity through inhibition of GSK3b is provided as well as prevention of apoptosis of cells through inhibition of GSK3b.

A method of humanely incapacitating or immobilizing a human or animal by providing a formulation including a cannabinoid rendering a recipient incapacitated or immobilized within a short period of time, and a delivery means which doses the recipient with the formulation resulting in a tetrahydrocannabinol blood level of above at least approximately 1-250 milligrams per milliliter of whole blood for incapacitation, or at least approximately 250-500 milligrams per milliliter of whole blood immobilization, and below a dosage which causes irreparable harm to or the death of the recipient. Providing a delivery means to induce an incapacitating or immobilizing dose at a distance. Providing a formulation including an antipsychotic to prevent or mitigate any violent psychosis of the recipient. Providing a formulation which induces a lethal cannabinoid blood level in the recipient which causes the death of the recipient within a humane period of time after formulation administration.

The present invention relates to a novel salt of (3aR,4S,7R,7aS)-2-[((1R,2R)-2-{[4-(1,2-benzisothiazol-3-yl)-piperazin-1-yl]methyl}cyclohexyl)methyl]hexahydro-1H-4,7-methanisoindol-1,3-dione and hydrates thereof, to methods for preparing the novel salt and its hydrates. In one aspect, the present invention provides a compound which is lurasidone dihydrochloride. In another aspect, the present invention provides a process for preparation of lurasidone dihydrochloride comprising: (i) mixing lurasidone free base in an organic solvent system; (ii) subjecting step (i) mixture to acid proton source; and (iii) isolating compound of lurasidone dihydrochloride.

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antipsychotic in combination with an anti-inflammatory agent, and to the use thereof in the treatment of psychotic disorder, and in particular, of schizophrenia.

The present invention relates to compounds of the general formula wherein R1 is cycloalkyl, substituted by OR or is 2-(7-oxa-bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-1-yl)-ethyl; R is hydrogen, lower alkyl or C(O)-lower alkyl; X is —CHR′—; and R′ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts, optically pure enantiomeres, racemates or diastereomeric mixtures thereof for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD, drug addiction, such as amphetamine, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischaemia, seizure and substance abuse, or for use as sedatives, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardiaprotective agents for coronary artery disease and heart failure.