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Dementia is not a specific disease. It is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain. People with dementia have significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships. They also lose their ability to solve problems and maintain emotional control, and they may experience personality changes and behavioral problems, such as agitation, delusions, and hallucinations. While memory ...
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The term antipsychotic is applied to a group of drugs used to treat psychosis. Common conditions with which antipsychotics might be used include schizophrenia, mania and delusional disorder, although antipsychotics might be used to counter psychosis associated with a wide range of other diagnoses. Antipsychotics also have some effects as mood stabilizers, leading to their occasional use in treating mood disorder (particularly bipolar disorder) even when no signs of psychosis are present. ...
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Dementia as related to Neuroleptics
- Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - DementiaGuide.com
DementiaGuide.ca lists some of the popular treatment options for dementia and/or alzheimer’s disease, such as drugs, counseling, exercise, and more.
- Dementia
What to do when a doctor prescribed neuroleptics for symptoms of dementia in your mother and she blindly listens to him? Answer: Neuroleptics can be used for a variety of reasons.
- Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - DementiaGuide.com
Always make sure you talk to your doctor first before stopping a medication. Never stop taking it on you own. See Also: About Dementia > Treatments for Dementia > Neuroleptics
- Neuroleptics increase risk of death in people with dementia ...
Alzheimer's Society News - Neuroleptics increase risk of death in people with dementia - Alzheimer’s Society comment on new study into antipsychotics.
- 1/97 Neuroleptics Lead to Cognitive Loss in People With Dementia
Neuroleptics Enhance Cognitive Decline In Patients With Dementia The use of neuroleptic drugs appears to hasten cognitive decline by about two fold in demented individuals.
- Dementia
Acetycholinesterase inhibitors—help to reduce dementia : Neuroleptics—help behavioral problems that arise from having dementia : Benzodiazepines—reduce agitation
- Dementia drugs hasten mental decline - 01 February 1997 - New ...
About 25 per cent of people suffering from dementia are given neuroleptics. The drugs, which are most commonly used to treat psychotic diseases such as schizophrenia, work by ...
- Multi-infarct dementia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Multi-infarct dementia , also known as vascular dementia , is the second most common form ... Agents that may be useful include antidepressants, neuroleptics and mood-stabilizers. ...
- AAGP: Risperidone More Effective than Conventional Neuroleptics in ...
Risperidone More Effective than Conventional Neuroleptics in Reducing Dementia Symptoms URL: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/22D67A.htm Doctor's Guide
- OnMedica - News
Doctors are warned over continuing to prescribe neuroleptics to people with dementia after a study showed it made their condition worse. The drugs affected the verbal skills of ...

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