Paul E. Croarkin, DO, MS, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, states: “Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome is rare, serious, and previously understudied in ...
A new study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology estimated the incidence of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), a potentially fatal adverse effect of antipsychotic ...
Yet, clinicians treating persons with autism continue to prescribe older neuroleptic agents targeting generic behavior problems -- despite the absence of psychosis and in the face of the serious ...
It has been recently suggested that these reports are an artifact, related to lessening of the impairment due to typical neuroleptic drugs and anticholinergic agents. The purpose of this study was ...