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Regulatory Issues on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in the United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2005
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The entity, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), is a useful concept in that it focuses attention on an aspect of dementia that has long been ignored in both research and treatment. Although it is useful as a broad category that includes a number of more specific clinical entities, BPSD is too broad a target to serve as an indication for a particular drug. Labeling with such a claim would be potentially misleading because it would not be clear what specific patient population would likely benefit from treatment.
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