Risperdal for toddlers

If a child that young can not just have the factors that will lead to mental illness but actually have mental illness manifesting, it raises the question of whether a fetus can be experiencing the effects of mental illness.

It's an interesting thing because while development is continuous (in that in humans we are not born fully developed) birth is sort of this moment that introduces interaction with people and with language. Presumably there's an evolutionary reason to expose humans to the world outside the womb during this point of development.

It's an interesting thing to think about when you consider the biopsychosocialenviromental model of psychiatry. The social, environmental, language, and some biological parts all change (I guess the largest biological changes are the switch from womb to open air and the switch from umbilical feeding to milk).

It raises unanswered questions about mental illness. Are some mental illnesses from a problem in biological development (as opposed to the traditional view of problems being related to emotional development or a problem that is static from birth/conception and unrelated to biological development--meaning an error occurs in the process of development itself)? And if they exist during biological development can their course be altered more then than if they're addressed after early development?

I realize these are questions unrelated to the article, in which the medications sound like they are being used not to improve the health of the brain or long-term outcomes. But I do think it's interesting to look at people at a younger and younger age and to try to figure out the actual etiologies. Schizophrenia is known to occur in a certain developmental period. Is it due to an error in development or to an error that is exposed by development?

For some children, like I was, it seems that issues of anxiety occur very, very early on. Perhaps there are other windows, like the ones with schizophrenia, that could be explored.

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Risperdal for toddlers