[Remarks on the drug treatment of demented patients].
Drug holidays are mandatory during longlasting therapy of demented patients with neuroleptics because of slowed drug-metabotisme and high succeptability for sedative side effects. Despite claims to the contrary nootropic drugs are no effective therapy of dementia in every day praxis. Based on the cholinergic hypothesis of Alzheimer's typ dementia and on the results of pilotstudies, cholinergic therapies will probably improve effectively the behavior of some dements on the future.
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D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000188:drug therapy; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D003704:Dementia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D010277:Parasympathomimetics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012110:Reserpine / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D001786:Blood Glucose; D010277:Parasympathomimetics; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D012110:Reserpine
Bemerkungen zur medikamentösen Behandlung Dementer.