{"id":7799,"date":"2016-12-03T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2016-12-03T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T07:55:52","slug":"risperidone-risperdal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/risperidone-risperdal\/","title":{"rendered":"Risperidone (Risperdal\u00ae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Risperidone (US brand name Risperdal\u00ae and generic) is a second-generation (\u201catypical\u201d) antipsychotic. Here is basic\u00a0information about this medication.<\/p>\n<h4>FDA-approved indications<\/h4>\n<p>1. Treatment of schizophrenia<br \/>\n2. As monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate, for the\u00a0treatment of acute manic or mixed episodes associated with Bipolar I Disorder<br \/>\n3. Treatment of irritability associated with autistic disorder<\/p>\n<h4>Dosage<\/h4>\n<p>Recommended daily dosage:<\/p>\n<p><em>Schizophrenia<\/em> (adults)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 2 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 4\u20138 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 4\u201316 mg<\/p>\n<p><em>Schizophrenia<\/em> (adolescents)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 0.5 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 3 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 1\u20136 mg<\/p>\n<p><em>Bipolar mania<\/em> (adults)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 2\u20133 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 1\u00ad\u20136 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 1\u00ad\u20136 mg<\/p>\n<p><em>Bipolar mania<\/em> (children and adolescents)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 0.5 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 1\u00ad\u20132.5 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 1\u00ad\u20136 mg<\/p>\n<p><em>Irritability associated with autistic disorder<\/em> (weight &lt;20 kg)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 0.25 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 0.5 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 0.5\u20133 mg<\/p>\n<p><em>Irritability associated with autistic disorder<\/em> (weight \u226520 kg)<br \/>\nInitial dose: 0.5 mg<br \/>\nTarget dose: 1 mg<br \/>\nEffective dose range: 0.5\u20133 mg<\/p>\n<h4>Dosage forms and strengths<\/h4>\n<p>Tablets (Risperdal\u00ae and generic): 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 2 mg, 3 mg, 4 mg<br \/>\nOral solution (Risperdal\u00ae and generic): 1 mg\/mL<br \/>\nOrally disintegrating tablets (Risperdal M-tab\u00ae and generic): 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 2 mg, 3 mg, 4 mg<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to Prescribing Information (see link below) for complete discussion of dosage, administration, warnings and precautions, contraindications, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risperidone (US brand name Risperdal\u00ae and generic) is a second-generation (\u201catypical\u201d) antipsychotic. Here is basic\u00a0information about this medication. FDA-approved indications 1. Treatment of schizophrenia 2. As monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate, for the\u00a0treatment of acute manic or mixed episodes associated with Bipolar I Disorder 3. Treatment of irritability associated with autistic disorder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-5","category-458","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}