The complex nature of inappropriate sexual behaviors in patients with dementia: Can we put it into a frame?

Sexuality and Disability

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-156

  Tsatali, Marianna S ^a   Tsolaki, Magda N ^a   Christodoulou, Tessa P ^b,c   Papaliagkas, Vasileios T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Greek Alzheimer's Association ^*  (Greece)

^c Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elderly; Greece; Inappropriate sexual behavior; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CIMETIDINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CYPROTERONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DONEPEZIL; DOPAMINE; GALANTAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYZINE; KETOCONAZOLE; LAMOTRIGINE; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEMANTINE; MONOAMINE; OXYTOCIN; PHEROMONE; PINDOLOL; RIVASTIGMINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EMOTIONALITY; FATIGUE; FEMINIZATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSOMNIA; INTIMACY; LIBIDO; MASTURBATION; MENTAL PATIENT; NAUSEA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PENIS ERECTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEDATION; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 79960227055     PISSN: 01461044     EISSN: 15736717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11195-010-9187-z     Document Type: Review

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