TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Impairments in Alzheimer's Disease
T2 - Current Treatment Strategies
AU - Borisovskaya, Anna
AU - Pascualy, Marcella
AU - Borson, Soo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - This update on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) discusses treatment strategies for cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms (such as agitation, psychosis, anxiety, and depression) common in this illness, emphasizing in particular nonpharmacologic strategies such as cognitive interventions, physical exercise, and psychotherapy. We provide an overview of cognitive enhancers and their combination strategies and medications commonly used for treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in AD. Finally, we give recommendations for providing support to caregivers and suggest how to identify caregiver/patient pairs most in need of intensive dementia care services.
AB - This update on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) discusses treatment strategies for cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms (such as agitation, psychosis, anxiety, and depression) common in this illness, emphasizing in particular nonpharmacologic strategies such as cognitive interventions, physical exercise, and psychotherapy. We provide an overview of cognitive enhancers and their combination strategies and medications commonly used for treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in AD. Finally, we give recommendations for providing support to caregivers and suggest how to identify caregiver/patient pairs most in need of intensive dementia care services.
KW - Agitation
KW - Alzheimer’s disease
KW - Caregiver support
KW - Cognitive enhancers
KW - Cognitive interventions
KW - Cooperative dementia care
KW - Neuropsychiatric symptoms
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U2 - 10.1007/s11920-014-0470-z
DO - 10.1007/s11920-014-0470-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25023513
AN - SCOPUS:84914815546
SN - 1523-3812
VL - 16
JO - Current psychiatry reports
JF - Current psychiatry reports
IS - 9
M1 - 470
ER -