Rivastigmine in the treatment of hypersexuality in alzheimer disease

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 287-288

  Canevelli, Marco ^a   Talarico, Giuseppina ^a   Tosto, Giuseppe ^a   Troili, Fernanda ^a   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a   Bruno, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia; cholinesterase inhibitors; hypersexuality; inappropriate sexual behaviors; Rivastigmine

Indexed keywords

RIVASTIGMINE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APPLICATION SITE ERYTHEMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN PRURITUS; TREATMENT DURATION; COMPLICATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MALE; PHENYLCARBAMATES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883272251     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e31825c85ae     Document Type: Short Survey

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