He trialed Risperdal on children for ADHD in 1999 with Wozniak; he appears to have had his own agenda all along, why people trust that guy and his work is beyond me. While researching the child bipolar evolution for the last decade, it was quite apparent just by watching the abstracts and drugs and how the funding by pharma was adding up. Taking his ADHD studies and using them for (ultimately)pediatric disorder treatment "plans".

Too bad it won't slam the door shut, I mean it would be as if Fuller Torrey became anti med and said SZ doesn't exist.

Hey Phillip: Did you read to the bottom of the NY Times article where this was found (see below)? Biederman is quite sick. This exchange illustrates just how much of a pathological narcissist he is!

In a contentious Feb. 26 deposition between Dr. Biederman and lawyers for the states, he was asked what rank he held at Harvard. “Full professor,” he answered.
“What’s after that?” asked a lawyer, Fletch Trammell.
“God,” Dr. Biederman responded.
“Did you say God?” Mr. Trammell asked.
“Yeah,” Dr. Biederman said.

Shadow? You gotta be David Hume to want more evidence than this.

At last. This F'er is coooked. Finally. Thank GOD! Career over. (I'm crossing my fingers.)

One of this bastards colleagues at MGH pediatric psychopharmacology diagnosed me with bipolar disorder 9 years ago. Well, obviously I don't have it but the experiences in my home preceeding and all the subsequent ones with the mental health system have seriously deformed me. I was an A+ student and a very talented swimmer and would have gone extremely far in swimming if I had not needed to quit my life to become a patient.

Of course, this doctor put me on risperdal, and never once to my knowledge checked my prolactin levels. Unfortunately, i was able to assemble an extensive bibliography to give to my primary care doctor to convinve him to order bone density measurements, the results of which are pending.

Thats another things these pig-courters are going to have to face. Risperdal caused increases in prolactin that do not return to baseline (normal) in between 60-80% of kids who take it. The best studies, ie, the longest ones show that risperdal induced increases in prolactin do not normalize completely over time -- which happens to be a tidbit, totally unsupported, that the drug mongers will throw out there when their questioned about this.

You have to also wonder how such a drug could affect the timing and more importantly the quality of puberty in adolescents. There is not enough research to answer this question. There is one well-publicized study underwritten by Janssen where they follow kids for only 12 months, and conclude there are no pubertal effects, because Tanner Staging is a really precise tool...

Well, the point of this disheveled rant is that MGH, legally, may be facing more trouble as it concerns this particular effect (the bone desnity)as it relates to their criminal marketing of the drug at their instituion. I wholeheartedly predict that will be the next big point-of-contention they get their pants sued-off for.

Good Luck MGH! You shameless sociopaths.

That GOD comment Biederman made should be held in your mind when watching the PBS "medicated child". (online free)a MUST view)

Biederman is a man who created the axis of evil that has harmed so many children's lives, it is sick. F--king bastard! excuse my french.

I have a very dear and close friend who was done great harm by Dr Biederman in the 80s and 90s. He was basically treated like one of the doctor's guinea pigs and the experiences he had with the medications that were used on him (basically in experimental doses) scarred him for life.

We were a part of the first generation of kids to be heavily medicated, and he suffered greatly under the "care" of this sick and twisted doctor.

I begged him to sue Biederman but he wouldn't. I was disgusted to learn how much that sicko has profited from his "work". I hope they bring him down hard - he deserves to go to jail.