Dementia with Lewy bodies: Diagnosis and management for primary care providers

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zupancic, Melanie ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a   Handa, Kamna ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; DONEPEZIL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUDROCORTISONE; GALANTAMINE; LEVODOPA; MIDODRINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; QUETIAPINE; RIVASTIGMINE; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEDTIME DOSAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARASOMNIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 84856030529     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.11r01190     Document Type: Review

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