Lurasidone

Pronounced loo-RAS-i-done

Brand names: Latuda

Type: Atypical antipsychotic · All Mental Health Medicines

What Lurasidone is used for

  • Schizophrenia
  • Bipolar depression

Common side effects

  • Drowsiness
  • Restlessness
  • Nausea
  • Stiffness

Important cautions

  • Must be taken with a meal to be absorbed properly
  • Antidepressant-type warning about suicidal thoughts applies to its use in bipolar depression in young people
  • Antipsychotics carry a warning of increased death risk when used for dementia-related psychosis in older adults

How it comes

Tablets. This guide lists forms only — it never lists strengths or doses.

Please note: This page is a patient-education summary, not medical advice, and it deliberately contains no doses. Medicines affect everyone differently — always follow your own prescription and talk to your doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing any medicine.