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Risperdal® (risperidone)

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• Appropriate and Safe Dosing of Atypical Antipsychotics - PowerPak.com, 11/1/05

News & Research:

• Risperdal (risperidone) - rxlist.com
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• Antipsychotic Drug May Treat Depression - WebMD, 11/2/07 - "depression was in remission for about 24.5% of the Risperdal patients, compared with almost 11% of those taking the placebo"
• FDA Approves Extended-Release Drug for Schizophrenia - Clinical Psychiatry News, 1/07
• Adjunctive Risperidone Effective for Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 9/22/06
• Study Finds Long-Acting Risperidone Associated With Low Relapse Rates - Doctor's Guide, 9/8/06
• Study Confirms Seroquel(R) as Effective as Risperidone for Treatment of Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 8/3/06
• Orally Disintegrating Risperidone Tablets in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder or Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 5/24/06
• New Dosages of Risperdal (Risperidone) Now Available - Doctor's Guide, 3/24/06
• Study Shows Equivalent Efficacy and Superior Tolerability of Quetiapine Compared to Risperidone in the Treatment of Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 1/4/06
• Risperidone Use Linked to Pituitary Tumors - Clinical Psychiatry News, 1/06
• Risperidone Eases Some Symptoms of Dementia: Dose of about 1 mg per day brings improvements, but risk of cerebrovascular events rises threefold - Clinical Psychiatry News, 11/05
• Interim Results Show Long-Acting Injectable Risperidone Comparable in Efficacy and Safety as Oral Antipsychotic in Bipolar Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 11/14/05
• Older Adults with Treatment-Resistant Depression Respond to Risperidone - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/05
• CAFE Study Shows Varying Benefits Among Atypical Antipsychotics - Medscape, 10/25/05
• Atypical Antipsychotics Offer Equivalent Benefit in First-Episode Psychosis - Doctor's Guide, 10/25/05
• Risperidone Provides Some Improvement in Behaviour for Children with Autism - Doctor's Guide, 10/24/05
• Antipsychotic Drugs: OK for Dementia Patients? - WebMD, 10/18/05
• Olanzapine vs. Risperidone in Schizophrenia - Clinical Psychiatry News, 9/05
• New Study Suggests Patients With Schizophrenia Improved With Treatment Change to Risperdal Consta (Risperidone) - Doctor's Guide, 8/4/05
• Antipsychotic Drug May Help Kids With Autism - WebMD, 7/1/05
• Second-Generation Antipsychotics Equally Effective in Schizophrenia - Medscape, 6/30/05
• Many Patients With Schizophrenia Who Transitioned to Risperdal Consta Avoided Relapse and Experienced Symptom Improvement - Doctor's Guide, 6/16/05
• Geodon as Effective as, and Better Tolerated Than, Risperdal for Schizophrenia Treatment, First Head-to-Head Study Shows - Doctor's Guide, 1/21/05
• Long-Term Treatment With Zyprexa (Olanzapine) Appears to Reduce Violent Behavior in People With Schizophrenia Compared To Risperidone - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• Risperidone Linked to Several Improvements in Children With Autism - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/04
• Some Anti-Psychotic Medications May Trigger Diabetes - Science Daily, 10/8/04 - "The rate is five to 10 times higher than the estimated rate of 6.3 cases per 1,000 in the general U.S. population"
• Risperidone Associated With Increased Risk of Hyperglycemia, Diabetes - Medscape, 8/5/04
• Seizure Drug Combats Antipsychotic Side Effects - Psychiatric News, 6/18/04
• Concern About Increased Stroke Risk With Risperidone Unfounded - Doctor's Guide, 6/21/04
• Risperdal (Risperidone) Shown to Rapidly Reduce Manic Symptoms Associated With Bipolar I Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/04
• Risperidone Helps Reduce Psychosis in Alzheimer's Patients - Doctor's Guide, 5/20/04
• Risperidone Appears Safe, Effective in Children With Severe Disruptive Behaviours and Below-Average Intelligence - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/04
• Risperidone Might Be Effective as Augmentation in Treatment-Resistant Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Glycine Reduces Negative And Cognitive Symptoms in Schizophrenic Patients Taking Olanzapine Or Risperidone - Doctor's Guide, 3/16/04 - See Vitacost glycine products.
• Risperidone Might Be Safe and Effective Augmentative Treatment for Anxiety Disorders - Doctor's Guide, 3/15/04
• Risperdal Consta (Risperidone Long-Acting Injection) Significantly Reduces Need for Institutional Psychiatric Care - Doctor's Guide, 2/10/04
• Study Demonstrates Key Benefits of Risperdal Consta (Risperidone Long Acting Injection) In Young Adults With Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 2/10/04
• Haloperidol and Risperidone May Produce Opposite Effects on Human Corticospinal System in Schizophrenic Patients - Doctor's Guide, 1/15/04
• FDA Approves Risperdal (Risperidone) for Treatment of Bipolar Mania - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Risperdal Consta (Risperidone), Newer-Generation Schizophrenia Treatment, Now Available in US - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/03
• Risperidone Appears Safe, Effective as Augmentation Strategy in Patients With Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 12/2/03
• FDA Approves Risperdal (Risperidone) Consta for Treating Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 10/30/03
• Risperidone-associated Steatohepatitis and Excessive Weight-gain - Pharmacopsychiatry. 2003 Sep;36(5):206-7
• Risperidone Reduces Disruptive Behavior and Severe Mood Disregulation in Children - Doctor's Guide, 10/17/03
• FDA to Require Diabetes Warning On Antipsychotics - Psychiatric News, 10/17/03
• Weight Gain is Potential Problem in Patients Switched from Risperidone to Olanzapine - Doctor's Guide, 10/16/03
• Risperidone Reduces Aggression in Children With Disruptive Behaviour Disorders - Doctor's Guide, 10/14/03
• Switch From Oral Olanzapine to Depot Risperidone Safe, May Improve Symptoms - Doctor's Guide, 10/3/03
• Risperidone May Lower Risk of Falls - Psychiatric Times, 10/03
• Therapeutic Dose Equivalency Calculation Method Proposed for Atypical Antipsychotic Medications - Doctor's Guide, 7/16/03 - "The reported minimum effective doses identified were 4 mg/day for risperidone, 10 mg/day for olanzapine, 150 mg/day for quetiapine, 120 mg/day for ziprasidone, 15 mg/day for aripiprazole, and 4 mg/day for haloperidol"
• Long-Acting Risperidone Well Tolerated, Effective in Schizophrenia - Medscape, 6/6/03
• Risperdal Consta (Risperidone) Provides Significant Schizophrenia Symptom Relief - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• Motor and Sexual Side Effects More Likely with Risperidone than Quetiapine - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/03
• Risperdal (Risperidone) Quick Dissolve Tablets Launched In US - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/03
• Risperidone Linked to Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack - Medscape, 4/25/03
• Antipsychotics Effective for Elderly Patients With Dementia - Psychiatric News, 4/18/03 - "atypical antipsychotics have been used to alleviate deteriorating behavioral symptoms in dementia patients, such as agitation and aggression. New research that she cited shows some atypical antipsychotics can actually improve cognition through activating the release of acetylcholine in the cortex. Clozapine, olanzapine, and risperidone, she reported, robustly increased acetylcholine release in the cortex, while ziprasidone only moderately increased levels, compared with haloperidol and thioridazine, which did not elevate acetylcholine levels at all ... atypical antipsychotics increase cortical dopamine and cholinesterase inhibitors at the very least increase cortical acetylcholine action, leading to an improvement in memory and thinking, as well as improvement in psychosis and behavior"
• Risperidone Shows Efficacy in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 4/1/03
• Risperidone Demonstrates Conventional Antidepressant Characteristic - Doctor's Guide, 3/19/03
• Antipsychotics and Glucose Dysregulation: Their Relationship to Treatment Decisions - Psychiatric Times, 3/03
• Multi-Trial Analysis Shows Risperidone Effective in Treating Dementia-Related Agitation, Aggression - Doctor's Guide, 3/6/03
• Non-aggressive Symptoms in Dementia Patients Also Respond to Risperidone - Doctor's Guide, 3/5/03
• Risperidone More Effective than Conventional Neuroleptics in Reducing Dementia Symptoms - Doctor's Guide, 3/4/03
• Risperidone Safe for Tx of Disruptive Behavior Disorders - Clinical Psychiatry News, 3/03
• Amisulpride as Good as Risperidone in Chronic Schizophrenia - Medscape, 1/8/03
• Hippocampal Volume May Predict Response of Schizophrenics to Risperidone - Doctor's Guide, 11/29/02
• Risperdal (Risperidone) Relieves Affective Symptoms in Children with Disruptive Behaviour Disorders - Doctor's Guide, 10/29/02
• Risperidone (Risperdal) Beneficial in Children Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 10/28/02
• Risperidone Effective In Children With Low Intelligence/Disruptive Behaviours - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/02
• Updated Safety Information For Risperdal* (Risperidone) In Elderly Dementia Patients, Announced In Canada - Doctor's Guide, 10/18/02
• Risperidone Effective in Treating Disruptive Behaviours In Children With Subaverage IQ - Doctor's Guide, 9/10/02
• Olanzapine Versus Risperidone: A Comparison Of Hospital Length Of Stay In Adult Inpatients With Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 9/2/02
• Risperidone Effective For Nursing Home Population With Behavioural And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 8/29/02
• Risperidone Controls Behavior in Children With Subaverage IQ - Medscape, 8/14/02
• Risperdal Consta to be Launched in United Kingdom - Doctor's Guide, 8/12/02
• Germany Approves Risperdal Consta (Risperidone), First Atypical Antipsychotic To Be Available As Long-Acting Injection - Doctor's Guide, 8/1/02
• Risperidone For Autistic Children Appears To Control Aggressive Behaviour - Doctor's Guide, 8/1/02
• Schizophrenia Drug [Risperdal] Helps Autistic Kids - WebMD, 7/31/02
• Research Suggests Risperdal (Risperidone) Improves Treatment of manic phase of Bipolar Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 7/24/02
• Rivastigmine-Risperidone Co-administration Safe in Dementia Patients with Behavioural Disturbances - Doctor's Guide, 7/23/02
• Pooled Analysis Supports Risperidone As First-Line Treatment For Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 7/23/02
• Low-Dose Risperidone Demonstrates Efficacy in Nonaggressive Agitated Patients with Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/02
• Risperidone Plus Mood Stabilizer Helpful in Acute Mania - Medscape, 7/18/02
• Risperidone Improves Disruptive Behavior in Intellectually Handicapped Children - Doctor's Guide, 6/28/02
• Long-Acting Risperidone Injections Decrease Hospitalization Rates for Schizophrenia Patients - Doctor's Guide, 6/28/02
• Switching to Risperidone Has Positive Impact on Caregivers, Patients with Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 6/26/02
• Ziprasidone Has Fewer Side Effects than Risperidone in Patients with Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 6/26/02
• Risperidone/Topiramate Combination Effective for Bipolar Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 6/26/02
• Outpatient Risperidone Effective for Dementia Symptoms - Doctor's Guide, 6/25/02
• Optimal Management of Psychosis & Agitation in the Elderly - Medscape, 3/20/02
• Risperdal (Risperidone) Approved For Delaying Relapse In Long-Term Treatment Of Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 3/14/02
• Risperidone and Olanzapine May Reduce Risk of Extrapyramidal Symptoms - Doctor's Guide, 1/17/02
• Anti-Metabolic Effects Of Risperidone May Counter Psychosis - Doctor's Guide, 1/16/02
• Risperidone Reduces Relapse Risk In Schizophrenics - Doctor's Guide, 1/3/02
• Injectable Antipsychotic Risperdal Consta (Risperidone) Significantly Improves Schizophrenia Symptoms - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/01
• Anti-Psychotic Seroquel (Quetiapine) Equal In Efficacy And Tolerability To Risperidone, Better Symptom Profile - Doctor's Guide, 12/6/01
• Oral Risperidone Safe and Effective for Long-Term Treatment of Behaviour Disorders - Doctor's Guide, 11/19/01
• Newer Antipsychotics Linked to Weight Gain - Doctor's Guide, 11/19/01
• Risperidone Safe And Effective For Dementia-Related Behavioral And Psychological Problems - Doctor's Guide, 6/18/01
• Quetiapine (Seroquel) Has Important Advantages Over Commonly Prescribed Agents In Treating Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 5/8/01 - "while equally effective in alleviating the symptoms of schizophrenia, has important tolerability advantages over other commonly prescribed agents ... quetiapine was not associated with significant weight gain ... sexual dysfunction is a frequent side effect of risperidone, olanzapine, and haloperidol, but not of quetiapine ... results revealed that the quetiapine patient group experienced a much lower incidence of EPS than the other agents in the study"
• Risperidone, Clozapine Seem Equally Effective In Refractory Schizophrenia - Doctor's Guide, 10/25/00
• Risperidone May Treat Aggression In Youths - Doctor's Guide, 10/27/99
• Risperidone More Cost Effective Than Olanzapine - Doctor's Guide, 9/24/99
• Risperidone Reduces Aggression and Agitation in Patients with Severe Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 9/22/99
• Zyprexa Reduces Hyperprolactinemia Prevalence In Schizophrenia Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/2/99
• Study Compares Two Main Schizophrenia Drugs - Doctor's Guide, 5/21/97

Abstracts:

• Risperidone for treatment-refractory major depressive disorder: a randomized trial - Ann Intern Med. 2007 Nov 6;147(9):593-602 - "Risperidone augmentation produced a statistically significant mean reduction in depression symptoms, substantially increased remission and response, and improved other patient- and clinician-rated measures"
• Placebo-Controlled Study of Relapse Prevention With Risperidone Augmentation in Older Patients with Resistant Depression - Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2007 Oct 10 - "In older patients with resistant depression and poor response to standard treatments, risperidone augmentation resulted in symptom resolution in a substantial number of patients and a nonsignificant delay in time to relapse"
• Glucose and lipid metabolism of long-term risperidone monotherapy in patients with schizophrenia - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2007 Feb;61(1):54-8 - "The body fat percentage (P = 0.0018), body mass index (BMI) (P = 0.0150), fasting blood glucose (P = 0.0358), triglyceride (P = 0.0377), leptin (P = 0.0243), total ghrelin (P = 0.0067), active ghrelin (P = 0.0241) and prolactin (P < 0.0001) levels of patients treated with risperidone were significantly higher than those of healthy volunteers, while the HDL-cholesterol level (P = 0.0222) was significantly lower"
• Risk of diabetes mellitus associated with atypical antipsychotic use among medicaid patients with bipolar disorder: a nested case-control study - Pharmacotherapy. 2007 Jan;27(1):27-35 - "the risk of diabetes was greatest among patients taking risperidone (hazard ratio [HR] 3.8, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.7-5.3), olanzapine (3.7, 95% CI 2.5-5.3), and quetiapine (2.5, 95% CI 1.4-4.3). The risk for developing diabetes was also associated with weight gain (HR 2.5, 95% CI 1.9-3.4), hypertension (HR 1.6, 95% CI 1.2-2.2), and substance abuse (HR 1.5"
• An Assessment of the Independent Effects of Olanzapine and Risperidone Exposure on the Risk of Hyperlipidemia in Schizophrenic Patients - Archives of General Psychiatry, 11/02 - "Olanzapine use was associated with nearly a 5-fold increase in the odds of developing hyperlipidemia compared with no antipsychotic exposure"

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