Testimony by Susan Resko, Executive Director of The Balanced Mind Foundation, urging the FDA to continue to research effects of Seroquel, Geodon, and Zyprexa in children, require monitoring, limit direct to consumer advertising, and to include parents in the development of medication guidelines.

Antipsychotic medications in the neuroleptic group (including Abilify, Clozaril, Geodon, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Thorazine, and Zyprexa) are often used to treat symptoms such as psychosis and severe aggression that may occur in patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions including bipolar disorder. Children taking these medications must be regularly monitored for development of side effects that appear in the face and body and how the child walks (gait). These include Parkinsonism, tardive dyskinesia, and akathesia. Parents may notice these side effects in their children. If so, the child's doctor should be notified immediately.