[Remission of schizophrenic psychosis with negative symptoms with risperidone]

The appearence of extrapyramidal motor disorders and the inadequate response of the negative symptoms to classical neuroleptic treatment represent a serious impairment for the patient that make rehabilitation and reintegration into the work setting difficult or even impossible. Such patients can profit from a changeover to risperidone, which has a more favorable side effects profile and an appreciably better effect on the negative symptoms than classical neuroleptics. The therapeutic usefulness of risperidone treatment is illustrated by the case of a 27-year-old technician whose pronounced negative symptoms failed to respond to classical neuroleptic treatment.