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Antipsychotic Treatment in Outpatients With Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

D. P. Devanand
D. P. Devanand
Affiliation:
Memory Disorders Center and the Department of Biological Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, U.S.A. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Uncontrolled reports suggest that 25% to 75% of patients with behavioral disturbances of dementia respond to conventional neuroleptic drugs. Yet during the past 20 years, results from only four randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of neuroleptics in dementia have been published. These studies were conducted in hospitalized inpatients or nursing home residents.

Type
Criterion Validity: Do the Symptoms Respond to Treatment—Pharmacologic or Nonpharmacologic?
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 355 - 361
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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