Brief psychosocial therapy for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer disease (the CALM-AD trial).

BACKGROUND: Good practice guidelines state that a psychological intervention should usually precede pharmacotherapy, but there are no data evaluating the feasibility of psychological interventions used in this way. METHODS: At the first stage of a randomized blinded placebo-controlled trial, 318 pat...

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Main Authors: Ballard, C, Brown, R, Fossey, J, Douglas, S, Bradley, P, Hancock, J, James, I, Juszczak, E, Bentham, P, Burns, A, Lindesay, J, Jacoby, R, O'Brien, J, Bullock, R, Johnson, T, Holmes, C, Howard, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009