title: The drug management of acute behavioural disturbances.
abstract: Some aspects of drug management of acute behavioural disorder are discussed. Drug management aims at the amelioration of the patient's ineraction with his environment; it is used as a diagnostic procedure, and to facilitate further definitive diagnosis and investigation, as a form of psychotherapeutic contact, to facilitate further psychotherapy, and to initiate a treatment programme aimed at returning the patient to being a useful and health member of society. Some methods of rapid tranquillisation are described and the drug management of the following specific behavioural disturbances are discussed: schizophrenic distrubance, acute mania, depressive behavioural disturbance, acute anxiety states, acting-out psychopathic behaviour, toxic states, epileptic furore and dyscontrol syndrome, behavioural disturbances of the elderly, and behavioural disturbances in organic conditions.
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D000208:Acute Disease; D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000368:Aged; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001007:Anxiety; D001519:Behavior; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010640:Phenothiazines; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011605:Psychoses, Substance-Induced / Q000188:drug therapy; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy; D014149:Tranquilizing Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines; D010640:Phenothiazines; D014149:Tranquilizing Agents; D010672:Phenytoin; D008094:Lithium