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Published on: November 21, 2013
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Tarun Kumar1, Archana Kathpal2, James Demer3
1Department of Psychiatry, Samaritan Medical Center, 830 Washington Street, Watertown, NY, United States.
Abstract:
Use of Second Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs) in children and adolescents has grown more significantly in recent years. Clozapine has shown good results for the treatment of aggression in adult population but no case has been reported about the use of clozapine for treatment of aggression in non-psychotic adolescents. We present cases of 2 adolescents in which clozapine was used primarily to treat their aggressive behavior and suicidal ideation.
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