Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), more than one in five adults (about 20%) in the United States has a mental health condition.

Between 1998 and 2007, psychotropic medications were associated with 429 adverse drug reactions in Danish children under the age of 17.

New starts of all psychotropic medications—antidepressants, anxiolytics, and antipsychotics—fell dramatically during the initial stay-at-home order period, which began March 13, 2020, and ...

Aagaard et al. Adverse drug reactions from psychotropic medicines in the paediatric population: analysis of reports to the Danish Medicines Agency over a decade. BMC Research Notes , 2010; 3 (1 ...

A survey finds that 14.2 percent of adolescents ages 13 to 18 years with any mental disorder reported being treated with a psychotropic medication in the last 12 months, which researchers suggest ...