Behavioral disturbances are commonly encountered in elderly demented patients. The records of all patients admitted to a geropsychiatric inpatient unit within a 2-year period who had a primary diagnosis of dementia and an accompanying behavioral disturbance treated with divalproex sodium were review
Effects of sodium valproate on behavioral disturbances in elderly outpatients with dementia
β Scribed by Katsuyoshi Mizukami; Kimitaka Hatanaka; Terumi Ishii; Masahiko Iwakiri; Noriko Sodeyama; Yoshiro Tanaka; Takashi Asada
- Book ID
- 109005557
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1444-1586
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