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A Controlled Trial of Haloperidol in Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Philip Barker
Affiliation:
Charles Burns Clinic, Birmingham, 13
Ian A. Fraser
Affiliation:
Prudhoe and Monkton Hospital, Prudhoe, Northumberland

Extract

A number of observations have appeared in the literature indicating that haloperidol may be of value in the treatment of children with certain types of behaviour disorder (Haberlandt, 1963; Rogers, 1965). There has, however, been a dearth of controlled observations to support these impressions, though there is evidence that the drug is of value in the tics of Gilles de la Tourette's disease (Connell et al., 1967). The present paper reports a controlled pilot study of haloperidol in overactive and aggressive children.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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References

Connell, P. H., Corbett, J. A., Horne, D. J., and Mathews, A. M. (1967). “Drug treatment of adolescent tiqueurs: a double blind trial of diazepam and haloperidol” Brit. J. Psychiat., 113, 375381.Google Scholar
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