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ADHD Treatment is Safe for Kids With Fragile X Syndrome
February 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Child Health News
Children with ADHD find it very difficult to maintain social relationships at home and at school. Stimulant medication like Ritalin is often successfully used to treat children with the condition, but while it is effective in children with mental retardation, it also causes side effects such as increased irritability, decreased verbalization and social withdrawal.
It was observed in a previous study that LAC significantly reduced hyperactive behaviour in FXS boys with ADHD who were treated with it for one year without causing adverse side effects.
With an eye on confirming their findings, the same team of researchers conducted the latest study, which has been reported in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A.
Rome-based Universita Cattolica researchers M. Giulia Torrioli and Giovanni Neri, who led the project, involved in the study 51 boys between 6 and 12 years old with FXS and ADHD, who were treated in one of eight centres in Italy, France and Spain.
Each patient followed the treatment for 12 months, which involved 500 milligrams of LAC or a placebo given twice daily. Patients were evaluated by an interdisciplinary team of child neuropsychiatrists and psychologists at the start of the study, after one month, six months and 12 months.
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