US biotech firm ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ACAD) has announced the publication of new data from its ongoing open-label safety extension study, the -015 Study, with Nuplazid (pimavanserin) in patients with Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) in the online issue of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
This is the first published report evaluating the long-term impact of antipsychotics on mortality and serious adverse events in patients with PDP.
Currently marketed antipsychotics are not approved for PDP and have a black box warning for use in elderly patients with dementia due to increased mortality and morbidity. Nuplazid was granted Breakthrough Therapy designation from the Food and drug Administration in 2014 and has the potential to be the first drug approved for the treatment of PDP in the USA.
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