| Literature DB >> 29955527 |
Rebecca H Campbell1, Michael Diduch1, Kristen N Gardner2, Christopher Thomas3.
Abstract
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are severe and debilitating psychiatric disorders. Despite the availability of numerous antipsychotic drugs, many patients still experience poor outcomes and treatment-limiting adverse side effects. Cariprazine is a novel antipsychotic with unique pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties. It is both a dopamine type 2 and dopamine type 3 partial agonist with 2 equipotent metabolites, desmethyl cariprazine and didesmethyl cariprazine, of which didesmethyl cariprazine has a half-life of 1 to 3 weeks. The objective of this article is to review the literature regarding efficacy and tolerability of cariprazine in the management of psychiatric disorders to determine its current place in therapy.Entities:
Keywords: bipolar disorder; partial dopamine agonist; pharmacotherapy; schizophrenia
Year: 2018 PMID: 29955527 PMCID: PMC6007710 DOI: 10.9740/mhc.2017.09.221
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ment Health Clin ISSN: 2168-9709