In children with autism, Cerebrolysin plus neuroleptics produced significant or very significant improvement after the first course in 38% of patients.
In plain wordsIn children with autism, Cerebrolysin plus neuroleptics produced marked improvement after the first course in 38% of patients.
- Peptide
- Cerebrolysin
- Outcome
- IncreaseImprovement after first course
- Study
n = 25
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
Measurements
- Patients with significant or very significant improvement
- 38%
- after the 1st Cerebrolysin course
Source sentences
Significant or very significant improvement was achieved after the 1st Cerebrolysin course in 38% patients, after the 2nd course in more than 50% and to the end of the follow-up (180th day) in 71% of patients.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
An open prospective clinical study included 25 patients with childhood autism aged from 3 to 8 years (mean age 5 years 11 months).
Patients received 2 therapeutic courses (15 intramuscular Cerebrolysin injections of 1.0 ml every other day per course) with 2 months interval and basic antipsychotic therapy using typical neuroleptics in age-adjusted dosages.
The duration of the study was 180 days.
In this study, Cerebrolysin was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Cerebrolysin.