In recent years, increasing numbers of children have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In some cases, children with unstable mood clearly meet current diagnostic criteria for …

Introduction: New antipsychotics continuously arrive on the market, which thereby influences
the approved and off-label prescribing (OLP) schemes. We aimed to identify the recent …

Background This is an update of the original Cochrane Review, last published in 2012 (Loy
2012). Children and youths with disruptive behaviour disorders may present to health …

Objective: To report the prescribing of antipsychotics to the youth population of the Canadian
province of Manitoba during the course of a decade. Methods: Use of antipsychotics in …

Antipsychotics are often prescribed to children and adolescents, mostly off-label. We aimed
to assess adherence to recommendations of guidelines for antipsychotic prescription. We …

Objective: To describe the frequency and trends of use of antipsychotics in Canadian
children and adolescents from 2005 to 2009. Methods: We performed analyses on the IMS …

BACKGROUND: Although the increase in treatment of children and adolescents with
antipsychotic medications has been well documented, much less is known about the factors …

Objectives: To review the evidence for efficacy and metabolic effects of atypical
antipsychotics (AAPs), and to propose a metabolic monitoring protocol for AAP use in …

Objective: To compare the rates of obesity, impaired fasting glucose (IFG), and type 2
diabetes between second-generation antipsychotic (SGA)-treated and-naive youth …

Objective: To update and extend our previous systematic review on first-(FGAs) and second-
generation antipsychotics (SGAs) for treatment of psychiatric and behavioral conditions in …