Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterised by impairment in social interaction and communication, with unusual behavior. In some cases the pharmacotherapy is prescribed and the most studied antipshychotic drugs include haloperidol and risperidone. In this paper we displayed the treatment of two cases of autism in boy and girl with risperidone. With the use of risperidone in girl...

A father beating his wife because he thinks she has been looking at another man while they were out in the pub; a girl being regularly kept off school to babysit her younger siblings; a mother who acknowledges ambivalent feelings towards her children being negatively judged by professionals because she is not all-giving and ever available; a teenage boy drinking daily because, in part, of his p...

This 10-year-old girl was transferred from an outside hospital for evaluation of cardiomegaly. She had been well until several weeks before admission when she started complaining of increasing fatigue and dyspnea on exertion. Three days before admission, she developed a dry cough and left-sided chest pain, without any fever or viral symptoms. Review of systems was otherwise unremarkable. Past h...

Three of the teenagers, one girl and two boys, had no speech at all. For the 87 with speech, parents were asked about the length of utterance their children usually used. While 70% of all the girls and the older boys (over 14 years) regularly used utterances of five words or more, only half the younger boys did so. Conversely, 18% of the younger girls and 33 % of the younger boys were limited t...

In this short presentation I will attempt to accomplish a couple of different goals. First, I will discuss a series of recent cases that set out the doctrine for biotechnology patenting. Judge Lourie of the Federal Circuit has written most of the opinions, and recently one or two other judges have joined in. Looking at these cases is much like looking at a wonderful machine, as the cases progre...

Induced delusional disorder or folie a deux in a 19 year old girl from India whose 16 years old younger sister had paranoid schizophrenia is described. Transient sharing of delusional beliefs by those living with the patients may be an extension of unsubstantiated beliefs held by the community.