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Side Effects Of Risperidone
Second Generation Antipsychotics no Better for Children & Adolescents
Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's better. This is the message to come from recent studies that have examined the therapeutic effects of the latest generation of antipsychotic medications on children and adolescents. Not only are the remedial effects no better than older generation drugs but patients simply appear to swap one set of side effects for another.
Report author, Dr. Linmarie Sikich, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beli...
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Expert & Community Posts
Make New Meds, But keep the Old
By Paul Ballas , Health Expert...more effective, safer and cause less serious side effects than the older ones. The older,... Read more »
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Chantix, Psychiatric Risks and the FDA
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a second alert to the public about severe psychiatric side-effects linked to the smoking-cessation drug, Chantix.[1] Back in November 2006 when the... Read more »Schizophrenia: disorganized type
...medications. Newer medications such as olanzapine, risperidone, and clozapine may be effective with fewer side effects. Sometimes, a patient needs acute hospitalization for safety and for faster... Read more »Schizophrenia: Treatment
...control symptoms than those who do not seek help as quickly. In spite of strong evidence for the positive effects of early treatment, patients usually do not receive treatment until after 10... Read more »Depression and Teenagers: Some Basics
...and older Tegretol carbamazepine any age (for seizures) *Because of its potential for serious side effects affecting the liver, Cylert should not ordinarily be considered as first line drug... Read more »Bipolar Medications
...relapses.It helps psychosocial functioning.It may help reduce the risk for suicide regardless of its effects on stabilizing mood.It may act directly on the nerve clusters affecting the circadian... Read more »
Medications
Risperidone is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (schizophrenia, manic phase of bipolar... Read more »
...not improve any faster but the risk of serious side effects will be increased. Do not stop... Read more »
...especially of drugs that have similar drying side effects such as: certain antihistamines... Read more »
...codeine), psychiatric medicines (e.g., chlorpromazine, risperidone, amitriptyline, trazodone).... Read more »
...codeine), psychiatric medicines (e.g., chlorpromazine, risperidone, amitriptyline, trazodone).... Read more »
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