Creating Opportunities For Teens & Adults With Special Needs & Disabilities

Medicine can be effective in the treatment of emotional and behavioral challenges but finding the right agent and especially the right dose can be tricky and time consuming. This episode covers: Determining factors indicating it’s time to consider medication as a treatment tool How to tell the medicine working Why it takes so long to find the right fit The need for markers, tests, or predictors to help choose a pharmaceutical route What to expect when starting a medicine Comparison of drug classes and options within those classes Dosing and the importance of finding the right provider and what to do if the wait list is long About the Guest Dr. Craig A. Erickson has worked to obtain continuous federal, foundation, internal, and industry funding supporting his and his collaborators' research over the last 10 ten years of his career. He is the inventor or co-inventor on many patents focused on translational treatment development in neurodevelopmental disorders that are held at Cincinnati Children