Risperidone for Tourette's Syndrome?

Abstract

Tourette's syndrome is a chronic, childhood-onset, neuropsychiatric disorder marked by motor and vocal tics. Because the most commonly used treatments, the typical neuroleptics haloperidol and pimozide, are effective but have troublesome adverse effects, the efficacy of atypical antipsychotics would be valuable to determine. Research results have been mixed: In a double-blind, …