India, June 11 -- A new study has found that some psychiatric medications may raise the risk of developing ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative condition, by upto six times.
The research, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed national health records from Sweden, comparing over 1,000 people diagnosed with ALS between 2015 and 2023 to more than 5,000 people without the disease. The groups were matched for age and gender.
Even after accounting for genetics and environmental factors, the study found a strong link between ALS and the use of multiple psychiatric drugs.
People with ALS were more than six times as likely to have been prescribed two or more psychiatric medications in the year before their diagn...