Treatment of Dementia-related Symptoms with Japanese Traditional Medicine (Kampo): A Review of Clinical Studies
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In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning about atypical antipsychotics being associated with an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementiarelated psychosis; in 2008, a similar warning about typical antipsychotics followed. Both types of antipsychotics, by their natures, are not indicated for the treatment of dementia-related psychosis. Thus, the control of psychiatric symptoms in dementia patients would seem to become more difficult due to this limitation on using antipsychotics, but it does not have to be. This is because an alternative approach was validated at around the same time in Japan, based on the Japanese traditional medicine, Kampo.
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