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Auditory hallucinations associated with relapse in Alzheimer's disease
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30215
Subject(s) - discontinuation , antipsychotic , visual hallucination , medicine , disease , psychiatry , psychosis , audiology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
Post‐hoc analyses in a trial of antipsychotic discontinuation in patients with Alzheimer's disease have found that patients who had severe hallucinations at baseline were more likely to relapse after antipsychotic discontinuation. This association was present only for auditory hallucinations and not visual hallucinations, the researchers reported.