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Risperidone-Induced Weight Gain in Referred Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Risperidone, also known as Risperdal, is the one drug FDA approved for treatment of irritability and behavior issues some autistics have. According to Vincent Iannelli, M.D., at about.com, these include: aggression deliberate self-injury temper tantrums quickly changing moods Risperidone is serious medicine, and as such has side effects that can occur. Again, according to Dr. [...]

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Deadly Choices: The myth of the mild disease

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

I’ve started reading Deadly Choices and goodness me its a breath of fresh air in terms of factual analysis and also writing skill. The last autism book I read was Age of Autism so you’ll appreciate how great the difference is. I’ll be blogging about Deadly Choices a fair bit I guess and I guess [...]

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NIMH’s Top 10 Research Events and Advances of 2010

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the U.S. has a blog post up discussing NIMH’s Top 10 Research Events and Advances of 2010. 7) The autistic brain. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been recognized as a disorder of brain development, but there have been few clues to what is different in the brain [...]

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Christmas break reading list

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Mine is too big (pages and content, not number of books), and a good chunk of Christmas break has already past. That said, I set a goal for myself to read more books. And to read better books. Reading “The Age of Autism” and “Callous Disregard” had some small value. It is good to challenge [...]

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