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Little Benefit Seen in Antipsychotics Used in Alzheimer's
Antipsychotic drugs that are widely used to calm agitated patients with Alzheimer's disease help very few of them, and those modest benefits are canceled out by the frequent side effects, a comprehensive government-funded study has found.
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By Shankar Vedantam
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Little Benefit Seen in Antipsychotics Used in Alzheimer's
Antipsychotic drugs that are widely used to calm agitated patients with Alzheimer's disease help very few of them, and those modest benefits are canceled out by the frequent side effects, a comprehensive government-funded study has found.-
By Shankar Vedantam