Risperidone News
Risperidone Eases Some Symptoms of Dementia: Dose of about 1 mg per day brings improvements, but risk of cerebrovascular events rises threefold.
Off-label use of low-dose risperidone is effective in treating the behavioral and psychological symptoms of patients with dementia, but clinicians must balance the drug's usefulness with its increased risk of cerebrovascular...
Tik pandemic driving people 'insane'
As Cape Town's tik problem reaches pandemic proportions, more and more patients are requiring psychiatric treatment for one of the drug's most common side effects: psychosis.
Optimized Use of Atypical Antipsychotics Associated With Equal Efficacy and Brief Hospital Stays in Patients with Acute Psychosis
A new study published by physicians from the Mental Health Research Institute and Monash University of Victoria, Australia, showed that all atypical antipsychotics studied were equally efficacious when used at optimal doses as...
Orally Disintegrating Risperidone Tablets in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, or Dementia: Presented at APA
Patients stable on compressed risperidone tablets were able to transition to the equivalent dose of orally disintegrating (OD) risperidone tablets with continued maintenance of effect, according to findings from an open-label...
New Dosages of Risperdal (Risperidone) Now Available
Physicians treating people with schizophrenia or bipolar mania now have expanded treatment options: Two additional dosages (3 mg and 4 mg) of Risperdal(R) M-TAB(R), the fast- dissolving form of one of the most prescribed...