期刊名称：Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
电子版ISSN：0973-1342
出版年度：2012
卷号：8
期号：4
页码：74-77
出版社：Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
摘要：During the last decade there has been a substantial increase in the use of atypicalantipsychotics among children and adolescents. The reason for this rising trend is mainlydue to better tolerance and lower rates of extra pyramidal side-effects compared to firstgeneration antipsychotics, the increase in the diagnosis of psychotic and bipolar disordersin youth, and the use of low doses of atypical antipsychotics in autistic and mentallyretarded children with behavioural problems and in disruptive behavioural disorders [1].However, care should be taken to judicious assessment of the risk benefit ratio beforeprescribing these agents as the adverse effects associated with atypical antipsychotics,especially weight gain and other metabolic side effects, may have significant adverselong term implications
