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Avoid these mistakes in using antipsychotics for psychosis in dementia

By Vimal Aga, MD (bio) Psychotic symptoms in persons with Alzheimer’s disease dementia are both common and distressing. Non-pharmacological approaches and other medications (cholinesterase inhibitors, citalopram) should be tried first because the use of antipsychotics is associated with an increased risk of mortality in this populations. But, antipsychotics are often unavoidable for treating psychosis in…

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