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- NIMH Perspective on Treating Alzheimer’s Patients with Antipsychotic Medications
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October 12, 2006
Director's Update
The recent publication of phase 1 results from the NIMH-funded Clinical Antipsychotic Trials in Intervention Effectiveness for Alzheimer's disease (CATIE-AD) in the New England Journal of Medicine provides new information about the use of several “atypical” antipsychotic medications for the treatment of psychotic symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease.