In psychiatry like in any other medical discipline, numerous clinical investigations of medications have been conducted throughout many years. New methods of fighting against all diseases have been searched. This work is required to provide the right selection of the exact drug for the patient, therefore development of various medications for various diseases of different people is very important. For this reason numerous classifications of psychotropic drugs for providing the doctors with certain recommendations in drug selection have been designed.
However, there are the medications actively used in psychiatry for mental disorders treatment. This is a new group of atypical antipsychotic agents, and Seroquel is related to it.
Seroquel chemically is derivative of dibenzotiazepine and by structure it is similar to clozapine. However, pharmacologically the drug differs by multireceptor interaction with a number of neuroreceptors that probably causes various aspects of its clinical effect. Seroquel is characterized by high efficiency in treatment of many symptoms of this disease. At the same time it causes fewer adverse side-effects inherent to other medications of the former generation that made the patients discontinue drug use. There are enough published works confirmed Seroquel efficiency and tolerance according to numerous clinical researches. So, during clinical investigations of the drug affecting the affective symptomatology including depression, sense of guilt, anxiety and stress, aggression and animosities, the drug has shown its excellent effect. Seroquel efficacy after the termination of the treatment course was at the top leading to good values.

Seroquel action is directed on regulation of chemical disbalance in the brain. Though Seroquel is not able to treat the disease completely, the long treatment helps to get rid of the symptoms and helps the patient feel better. Therefore, it is very important to take a prescribed Seroquel dose daily even if disease symptoms have disappeared, and the patient feels good.
You are strictly recommended to keep to prescribed dosage in order to prevent overdose leading to adverse side-effects. Consult the doctor to know a right dosage. He will indicate the treatment course and the required drug dose. Seroquel is taken orally twice a day, irrespective of food. A daily dose for the first four days of the treatment is 50mg (1st day), 100mg (2nd day), 200mg (3rd day), 300mg (4th day). Since the 4th day, a dose should be titrated to effective targeted dose, from 300 to 450mg a day, if required to 750mg a day. At renal impairment or hepatic failure and in elderly patients an initial dose is 25mg a day, with the following daily increase by 25-50mg to the effective dose.
Discuss with the doctor all contraindication. Seroquel is not recommended in some diseases. Do not take the medication if you have hypersensitivity to Seroquel components, and during pregnancy or breast-feeding. Take extra care when taking Seroquel if you have high arterial hypotension, epilepsy and epileptic attacks. Be cautious during the treatment when driving and involving into other dangerous activity required high attention and fast reactions. Be careful when combine the drug with other medications, with alcohol, and in combined administration with potential inhibitors of biotransformations, ketoconazole, erythromycin and others.
Any medications may cause side-effects that different people experience in different way. Some people may observe side-effects during Seroquel use while others do not experience any side-effects. During clinical researches Seroquel was tolerated very well by the patients.
Those reported side-effects passed mildly and quickly disappeared are as follows: headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and rare short-term faintness caused by rapid change in body position from sitting or lying. Drowsiness and dizziness in people taking Seroquel usually were mild and disappeared when the treatment course discontinues.
If you have side-effects or strange symptoms or if you have any questions associated with Seroquel treatment visit the doctor.