Physicians who prescribe antipsychotic medications may be basing their decisions on incomplete information.

A study in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that the apparent clinical effectiveness of the newer form of drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses (second-generation anti-psychotic drugs) may be enhanced by the selective reporting of trials of these drugs in medical journals – a phenomenon called publication bias.

If you’re in pain, there’s a pill for that! But it may not always be good. A new study shows clinical effectiveness of the newer form of drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses may be enhanced by a phenomenon called publication bias.

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A review of previous studies suggests that even though atypical antipsychotic medications are commonly used for off-label conditions such as behavioral symptoms of dementia, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, these medications are effective for only a few off-label conditions, and that the benefits and harms of these medications for these uses vary.