Researchers studying 309 6-month-olds at Emory University’s Infant Development Laboratory found that infants prenatally exposed to antipsychotics showed significantly lower scores on a standardized neuromotor examination that tests posture, tone, reflexes and motor skills and habituation to a neutral female face. Results will appear in Archives of General Psychiatry.
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I think we can all agree that giving PREGNANT mothers ANY type of psychiatric drug is an abomination. Did anyone actually think this was good medicine?
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Association Between Zyprexa olanzapine and Hyperglycemia.
There is concern Zyprexa,like other atypical antipsychotic drugs, has the potential to cause metabolic disorders, particularly hyperglycemia (excess sugar) and diabetes. Atypical antipsychotics cause the body to metabolize fat instead of carbohydrates, leading to insulin resistance to the excess carbohydrates. At the same time they promote fat accumulation.I was a patient back in 1996-2000 who was a subject of Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa ‘viva’ Zyprexa’ off label sales promotion.I was given it as an ineffective costly treatment for PTSD It gave me diabetes as a side effect.–Daniel Haszard
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