The side effects of antipsychotics can be quite problematic and researchers have found that the proportion of adolescents with autism or intellectual disability has increased among youths treated with these medications. Antipsychotics are a class of psychiatric medication primarily used to manage psychosis including delusions hallucinations paranoia or disordered thought and principally for schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Do antipsychotics actually help? The researchers also found that the number of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder being prescribed antipsychotics has also increased over the years in the US. For the study the team performed a meta-analysis of 39 studies and over 350000
