Page 4 The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update

nosed with ADHD. vention, says Scahill. So the next will evaluate whether the children who So were not really saying they study will combine risperidone and got the behavioral treatment made have ADHD; we are saying that they behavioral treatment and test just ex- gains in other areas such as commu- have PDD or autism and they have actly that question. The second study nications, adaptive skills of daily liv- significant problems with hyperactiv- will begin early in 2003, and is what ing, and socialization. ity, impulsiveness and distractability, ...