Treatments for Psychiatric Symptoms and Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia

Determinants of carer stress in Alzheimer's disease

“…However, there have been few randomized controlled trials of treatments for these symptoms and little is known about the dierential eectiveness of the drugs that are available. There is also limited understanding of the magnitude of bene®t that the various treatments can oer or of their consequences (eg tolerance) or eectiveness over the course of dementia as the underlying neurobiology of the disease changes (Schneider and Sobin, 1994). Research eorts need to focus on and resolve these issues in order to enable much needed guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of NCFs in dementia to be compiled.…”

Psychiatric Symptoms and Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia: A Review of Therapy

“…This article reviews some of the studies that have been carried out. For more detailed reviews, the reader is referred to Schneider and Sobin (1994) and Burns (1994).…”