How to treat behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD): Do not treat patients exhibiting symptoms like BPSD with neuroleptics from the beginning

Author: TAKITA, Masashi

Source: Psychogeriatrics, Volume 8, Number 3, September 2008 , pp. 148-150(3)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

The present report details the case of three patients who had symptoms like behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). In all three cases, other factors contributing to the disease were hidden behind the symptoms resembling BPSD. These cases exhibited symptoms like BPSD following acute or subacute onset. Before starting medication with antipsychotic drugs, the underlying causes of the symptoms, especially those with an acute or subacute onset, should be considered.

Keywords: antipsychotic drugs; behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD); Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease; neuroleptics

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2008.00251.x

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