"and identify the most susceptible groups." Dr.Pessah says chemicals used commercially -- there are some 80,000 -- could affect a child's developing brain.

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Guilford has licensed rights to the work and is well along in developing druglike chemicals based on it.

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Alkermes, which specializes in developing technologies that deliver drug chemicals to the body, figured out a way to turn the Risperdal pill into a shot, branded Risperdal Consta.

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The risk is particularly high for children, whose brains are still developing and are therefore especially vulnerable to the chemicals.

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