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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;78:2 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.100586
  • Antipsychotics, cognitive decline and death in Alzheimer's disease
  • Editorial commentary

Antipsychotics, cognitive decline and death in Alzheimer’s disease: the London and South-East Region Alzheimer’s Disease longitudinal study

  1. D Ames
  1. Correspondence to:
 D Ames
 Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Normanby House, St George’s Hospital, 283 Cotham Rd, Kew, Victoria 3101, Australia; dames{at}unimelb.edu.au

    The LASER-AD study provides limited reassurance in relation to the occasional prescription of novel antipsychotics to elderly people with dementia

    For psychiatrists in the business of helping old people who exhibit delusions and challenging behaviours related to dementia, it will be a relief to read some good news at last. Apparently, even if we may not be helping old people with dementia very much when we treat them with an atypical antipsychotic,1 we may after all not be hastening their deaths or irreversibly …

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