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The Treatment of Dementia (October) | 2003

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Beware Benadryl!

October 1, 2003

Dr. Renee Snow completed a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Mclean Hospital and is now in private practice in North Andover, MA. Read More

Call it “Alzheimer-Kraepelin’s Disease”

October 1, 2003

Aloys Alzheimer was a German neurohistologist who was such a workaholic that he would examine brain tissue throughout the night, catching a few hours of sleep the next day before beginning all over again. Read More

Dr. Marc Agronin on The Evaluation of Dementia

October 1, 2003

Marc Agronin, M.D.

Dr. Agronin, as the "Director of Mental Health Services" at the Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged, what do you actually do? Read More

Preventing Dementia: What Works

October 1, 2003

Daniel Carlat, MD

We'd all like to escape dementia in our old age. Over the past decade, numerous large scale epidemiological studies have been published singing the praises of a variety of agents that might prevent or delay dementia. Read More

Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Primer

October 1, 2003

Daniel Carlat, MD

Plaques and Tangles, Amyloid deposits and Apo-E: Who can keep them straight? Unless you are a researcher, all you really need to know is how to diagnose dementia, and how to dose the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor du jour. Read More

Comparing Cholinesterase Inhibitors

October 1, 2003

Daniel Carlat, MD

If you were in TCR's editorial offices, surrounded by boxes of articles about acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEI’s), you would quickly develop a sinking sensation. Not because the articles are so boring (though, in fact, they are); rather, because the pharmaceutical hype-sters are back on parade once again. Read More