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Lack of engagement with psychological therapies
Lactate in blood, psychotropic agent effects
Lamotrigine borderline personality disorder clozapine augmentation in overdose life-threatening cutaneous reactions restarting after period of non-compliance target range
Laxative misuse/abuse Biochemical and haematological effects of psychotropics Eating disorders
Laxatives Acting on clozapine plasma concentration results Clozapine: common adverse effects Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility Initiation of clozapine in the community Safer prescribing for physical conditions in dementia
Learning difficulties capacity and consent epilepsy comorbidity general considerations Learning disabilities prescribing practice
Legal issues
Lemborexant in overdose managing sleep disturbance in dementia use in patients with hepatic impairment
Less commonly used treatments, well supported by published evidence (no preference implied by order)
Leukopenia, psychotropic agent effects
Levetiracetam, for tardive dyskinesia
Levomepromazine Quick reference for licensed maximum doses Relative adverse effects - a rough guide
Lewy body dementia Dementia Parkinson's disease
Libido
Licensed maximum doses of antipsychotics, according to US Food and Drug Administration labelling, where available
Linaclotide, for constipation treatment
Linear dose reductions of olanzapine cause increasingly large reductions in D2 dopaminergic receptor blockade.
Linear reductions of dose cause increasingly large reductions in effect on GABA-A receptor occupancy.
Linear reductions of dose cause increasingly large reductions in effect on receptor targets, probably associated with more withdrawal effects.
Lipoproteins in blood, psychotropic agent effects
Liraglutide, for antipsychotic-induced weight gain
Lisdexamfetamine attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults borderline personality disorder bulimia nervosa/binge eating disorder
Lithium: clinically relevant drug interactions
Lithium: prescribing and monitoring
Lithium plasma levels
Lithium use with
Lithium
liver function tests (LFTs) interpretation monitoring to access drug effects
Lofepidrine, in overdose
Lofexidine, clozapine-induced hypersalivation