• DOI:10.1007/S11910-006-0051-6
Corpus ID: 39610712

Psychotropic medication use for behavioral symptoms of dementia

@article{Wang2006PsychotropicMU,
  title={Psychotropic medication use for behavioral symptoms of dementia},
  author={P. Wang and M. Brookhart and S. Setoguchi and A. Patrick and S. Schneeweiss},
  journal={Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports},
  year={2006},
  volume={6},
  pages={490-495}
}

• P. Wang, M. Brookhart, +2 authors S. Schneeweiss
• Published 2006
• Medicine
• Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Behavioral disturbances associated with dementia are common and burdensome. Although no psychotropic medications are currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat such behavioral symptoms, a variety of drug classes are commonly used for these purposes. Atypical antipsychotic medications may be somewhat effective and are generally considered the pharmacologic treatments of choice; however “black box” warnings have recently been added to their labels by the FDA, warning… Expand

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