Lumateperone is a new drug recently approved by the FDA for treatment of schizophrenia. The key clinical trial was just published and includes data on motor side effects of the drug. The sponsor, Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc., may have data on use in Parkinson disease (PD), but I don’t think any of it is public. So […]
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A measured response to CNN’s article on Nuplazid®
A recent article from CNN discussed Nuplazid® (pimavanserin), a medication approved by the FDA in 2016 for treatment of hallucinations or delusions in Parkinson’s disease (a.k.a. PDP, for Parkinson disease psychosis). The article made some efforts to present a balanced perspective, but the title and overall tenor of the article focused on the possibility that this new […]