Review article

Dementia and Mental Disorders

Ninoslav Mimica
Marija Kušan Jukić

Abstract

The appearance of psychiatric symptoms in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia is a great challenge. Mental disorders such as depression, psychotic decompensation and delirium superimposed on dementia may significantly affect cognitive functions, accelerate deterioration and negatively affect the functioning and the independence in activities of daily life. Mental symptoms within certain clinical pictures (eg, depressive or psychotic) in people with dementia require treatment through the use of psychopharmaceuticals and a range of non-pharmacological methods, as well as the treatment of somatic comorbidities with a relatively high risk of side effects, drug interactions and various complications.

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease; dementia; delirium; depression; behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of dementia

Hrčak ID:

189147

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/189147

Publication date:

8.11.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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