Treatment of first-episode psychosis in patients with autism-spectrum disorder and intellectual deficiency.

The article describes the treatment of first-episode psychosis in an 18-year-old woman with autism-spectrum disorder and intellectual deficiency. Topics include the response of the patient to antipsychotic medication, two intramuscular injections of loxapine received by the patient after trying to assault a nurse, and reduction in the patient's psychotic symptomatology after five days of treatment.