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Items Tagged with 'weight gain'

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Weight Changes and Antidepressants: What to Tell Patients

May 1, 2025
Dominic Le, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Dominic Le, MD. Dr. Le has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

When patients ask about weight changes with antidepressants, providing guidance can be challenging. While bupropion is often considered weight-neutral and paroxetine an offender, how do other common antidepressants compare?


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Psych Meds That Cause Weight Loss

May 1, 2025
Chris Aiken, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Chris Aiken, MD. Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Psychiatry Report. Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. Practicing psychiatrist, Winston-Salem, NC.

Dr. Aiken has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Some patients will only take a psych med that is weight neutral. We found nine that can cause weight loss.


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Clinical Update

Tapering Antipsychotics

November 1, 2023
Charmi Patel Rao, MD, DFAACAP
From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
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Charmi Patel Rao, MD, DFAACAP. Director of Psychiatric Services, Positive Development; Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; UCSD, San Diego, CA.

Dr. Patel Rao has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Antipsychotics offer remarkable, even lifesaving treatment for children and adolescents, however, their side effects include metabolic and neurologic problems, including neurotoxicity. This clinical update guides you through a rational process for employing these powerful medications when necessary but also reducing and discontinuing them when possible.


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Research Update

Probiotics, Dietary Fiber, and Antipsychotic Weight Gain

July 3, 2023
Jeffrey Cardenas, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Jeffrey Cardenas, MD. Dr. Cardenas has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Probiotics may reduce metabolic side effects on antipsychotics, but do they need dietary fiber to work?


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Medication Management of Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Children and Teens

July 25, 2022
Joshua Feder, MD and Mara Goverman

Second-generation antipsychotics routinely breach the FDA’s level of concern of >7% body weight gain. This article examines the efficacy and safety of using off-label medications, such as metformin, to manage this side effect.


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Medication Management of Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Children and Teens

July 1, 2022
John Raiss, MD
From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
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John C. Raiss, MD. Assistant Clinical Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Raiss has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Once weight gain occurs with antipsychotic treatment in children and adolescents it is difficult to reverse. How should you select and prescribe SGAs to prevent it? Which additional medications are effective in preventing weight gain from SGAs? This clinical update gives you information to help prevent this common and problematic side effect.


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RESEARCH UPDATE

Topiramate Improves Weight in Schizophrenia in South Asians

June 1, 2022
Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH.
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH. Dr. Miller has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

This study looked at adjunctive topiramate for weight in a patient population inherently more vulnerable to cardiometabolic disturbance.


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