Dr. Grcevich, who began seeing Katie about three years after she started
taking risperidone (and is not currently her doctor), recommended weaning her from the medication, but she became violent and suicidal.
In an earlier study, Kirby and Chadi Calarge, a UI pediatric psychiatrist, compared patients
taking risperidone long - term to patients who were not on the drug.
Not exact matches
After controlling for other possible contributing mental and physical conditions and their associated behaviors, researchers found no significant increased risk for either congenital malformations or cardiac malformations among women who
took either typical or atypical APMs in the first 90 days of pregnancy, with the possible exception of
risperidone which continued to show a slightly increased risk.
The generic
risperidone products will have the same safety warnings as Risperdal, including a boxed warning, cautioning that older patients with dementia - related psychosis treated with atypical anti-psychotic drugs are at increased risk of death, as compared with those
taking placebo.
Nine patients were
taking atypical neuroleptic drugs (clozapine or
risperidone) during the duration of treatment (two in the cognitive behaviour therapy group, four in the supportive counselling group, and three in the routine care group).
It's especially common for teens with autism to
take one or two medicines,
risperidone or aripiprazole.