Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia


This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association includes a clinical review of drug treatment for neuropsychiatric symptoms that may be present over the course of neurodegenerative diseases:

Kaycee M. Sink, Karen F. Holden, & Kristine Yaffe. Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of the American Medical Association 2005; 293: 596-608.




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