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Infants and toddlers are too young for psychotropics; parent therapy better
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30100
Subject(s) - risperidone , psychiatry , pediatrics , medicine , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
A December 10, 2015, article in The New York Times headlined “Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics” was sharply critical of infants being given psychiatric medications that have never been studied in such young ages. In the opening scenario, an 18‐month‐old had violent behavior resulting from an epilepsy medication and was given risperidone, despite the fact that it is not approved for children that young.