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Senile‐Presenile Dementia: Follow‐Up Data on an Effective Psychotherapy‐Anticoagulant Regimen *
Author(s) -
WALSH ARTHUR C.,
WALSH BERNICE H.,
MELANEY CATHERINE
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1978.tb03326.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , regimen , anticoagulant therapy , psychiatry , senile dementia , psychotherapist , gerontology , disease , psychology
This report contains follow‐up data on the effects of an anticoagulant‐psychotherapy regimen in presenile and senile dementia. Over a two‐year period, 49 such patients who were seriously ill were treated with a Coumadin‐psychotherapy regimen; 34 (69 percent) improved (4 of them dramatically) and 15 (31 percent) did not improve or became worse. The underlying pathologic processes are discussed, with the rationale for therapy.