‘Adults with Parkinson's disease and hallucinations or delusions can have treatment with clozapine if they need to’
نویسندگان
چکیده
SUMMARY Clozapine is the only antipsychotic licensed for treatment of Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP) but infrequently used in National Health Service because obstacles to integration hospital-based neurological/geriatric services with clozapine clinics run by community mental health teams. This commentary points out mismatch between NICE quality standards on PDP and current clinical practice. It suggests that forthcoming integrated care systems should be able overcome these obstacles, enabling innovative models providing such as those described Taylor et al, so becomes a right patients their families.
منابع مشابه
Treating Hallucinations and Delusions Associated With Parkinson's Disease Psychosis.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW We discuss features of Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP) including symptomology and pathophysiology. Treatment options, including non-pharmacologic strategies, dose reduction of offending agents, and the addition of non-dopaminergic antipsychotics, are addressed. The efficacy of second-generation antipsychotics and novel agents is examined. RECENT FINDINGS Pimavanserin, a ...
متن کاملa comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection
supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...
15 صفحه اولChildren with Atopic Dermatitis Should Always be Patch-tested if They Have Hand or Foot Dermatitis.
Atopic dermatitis is the most common chronic inflammatory disease among children in industrialised countries. Many factors influence this disease in a negative way and contact allergy is one such factor. The aim of the study was to examine the frequency of contact allergy among children with the diagnosis atopic dermatitis. Contact allergy was found in 22/82 children (26.8%), the most common fr...
متن کاملthe past hospitalization and its association with suicide attempts and ideation in patients with mdd and comparison with bmd (depressed type) group
چکیده ندارد.
New-onset delusions and hallucinations in patients infected with HIV.
OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between HIV-associated psychotic symptoms (i.e., delusions, hallucinations) and demographic, psychopathological and medical variables by comparing patients with and without cerebral opportunistic infections or metabolic encephalopathy. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PATIENTS 26 patients admitted to hospital with HIV and new-onset psychotic symptoms, defin...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BJPsych Advances
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2056-4678', '2056-4686']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2021.61