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Asenapine, sold under the brand name Saphris among others, is an atypical antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and acute mania associated with bipolar disorder as well as the medium to long-term management of bipolar disorder.

Medication

Brand names
Secuado, Saphris
Drug class
Diazepines, oxazepines, thiazepines and oxepines
Active ingredients
asenapine
Dosage form
Transdermal System, Sublingual Tablet
Sources: openFDA · RxNorm (NLM). Not medical advice.

Research

574 papers

via PubMed

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Medical uses
  • Schizophrenia
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Adverse effects
  • Discontinuation
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacodynamics
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Asenapine, sold under the brand name Saphris among others, is an atypical antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and acute mania associated with bipolar disorder as well as the medium to long-term management of bipolar disorder.

It was chemically derived via altering the chemical structure of the tetracyclic (atypical) antidepressant, mianserin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “asenapine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.