Posted by linkadge on December 18, 2017, at 16:01:44
In reply to Are there meds Aspbergers respond different to?, posted by PeterMartin on December 18, 2017, at 9:09:30
I'm sure there are differences in how individuals with autism respond to psychiatric medications.
However, I don't think we know enough about the neurobiology of autism to create a model of which meds may work better or worse.
As RJ mentioned, there are a few meds approved for behavioral symptoms of autism, however, these are mainly used to control negative behaviors.
I think at this stage, doctors pretty much just treat the symtpoms as they would other disorders.
Anecdotally (from reading pubmed) drugs with some degree of 5-ht2 antagonism seem to be effective for certain symptoms. Mirtazapine and risperdal come up quite a bit in terms of managing certain symptoms.
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