Management of inappropriate sexual behaviors in dementia: A literature review

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 683-692

  Tucker, Inese ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioral disturbances in dementia; hypersexuality; sexual disinhibition

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CIMETIDINE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DONEPEZIL; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; KETOCONAZOLE; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PINDOLOL; QUETIAPINE; RIVASTIGMINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; ZUCLOPENTHIXOL; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ABNORMAL DREAMING; ADRENAL DISEASE; AGITATION; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; AKATHISIA; ALERTNESS; ALOPECIA; AMBLYOPIA; AMENORRHEA; AMNESIA; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; APATHY; APPETITE; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHENIA; ATAXIA; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; BLURRED VISION; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BONE DENSITY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TENDERNESS; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATARACT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMENTIA; DENTAL CARIES; DEPRESSION; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRY EYE; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; EYE DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEVER; GAIT; GALACTORRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GYNECOMASTIA; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PALPITATION; HOSTILITY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPERPYREXIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPERTRICHOSIS; HYPESTHESIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHARGY; LEUKOPENIA; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TUMOR; MALAISE; MANIA; MASTALGIA; MENINGIOMA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVULATION; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYURIA; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; QT PROLONGATION; RASH; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SALIVATION; SEIZURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STRIA; STROKE; SWEATING; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TASTE; TASTE DISORDER; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TINNITUS; TORSADE DES POINTES; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR; ULCER; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE RETENTION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VISUAL DISORDER; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA; YAWNING; AGED; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENYLCARBAMATES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957334948     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210000189     Document Type: Review

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