Citation

Skoretz P, Tang C. CNS Spectr. 2016; 21(6): 445-449.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California-Irvine, Orange, California, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, MBL Communications)

DOI

10.1017/S1092852915000796

PMID

27181114

Abstract

High violence prevalence is a common concern for forensic psychiatric settings. Categorizing underlying drivers of violence has helped to direct treatment and management efforts toward psychotic, predatory, and impulsively violent psychopathology. This article describes a series of cases in which clozapine provided adequate control of psychosis in women suffering schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Nevertheless, impulsive violence remained problematic. Add-on methylphenidate was found to be safe and effective in curbing impulsive violent behavior in this select group of patients.

Language: en