Early warnings lowered use of antipsychotic medications for dementia, study finds
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
As loved ones with dementia disappear into symptoms of aggression, agitation or delusions, families are left with few good medical solutions. A new generation of antipsychotic medications gained popularly in the 1990s because they avoided side effects such as Parkinson's syndrome associated with conventional antipsychotic medications used to treat dementia...