Parents are understandably reluctant to have their children medicated for bad behavior, but when all else fails, treating children to stabilize their uncontrollable aggressive acts and to make them more amenable to psychological interventions is an attractive option.
He exhibited "self-destructive, aggressive and violent behavior" and suffered extreme depression, withdrawing from his family and children, court documents said.
This was true even after the researchers took into account how aggressive the children were at the beginning of the study -- a strong predictor of future bad behavior.