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Pharmacological interventions for those who have sexually offended or are at risk of offending.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
February 2015
The Priory Group, Chadwick Lodge, Chadwick Drive, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK, MK6 5LS.
Background: Sexual offending is a serious social problem, a public health issue, and a major challenge for social policy. Victim surveys indicate high incidence and prevalence levels and it is accepted that there is a high proportion of hidden sexual victimisation. Surveys report high levels of psychiatric morbidity in survivors of sexual offences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWithdrawal versus continuation of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
March 2013
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Background: Antipsychotic agents are often used to treat neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in dementia, although the literature is sceptical about their long-term use for this indication. Their effectiveness is limited and there is concern about adverse effects, including higher mortality with long-term use. When behavioural strategies have failed and drug therapy is instituted, regular attempts to withdraw these drugs are recommended.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrect titration of non-drugs and some other methodological issues.
Neuropsychobiology
December 1994
Medical Department Troponwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, Germany.
Doctors' prescription and dosing behaviour was investigated using data from 9 clinical trials in 550 patients treated with psychotropics. 7 trials were conducted under double- and 2 under single-blind conditions. In 3 of these trials, oral and i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Identical psychosis of a monocygous twin set--a case report (author's transl)].
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr Grenzgeb
June 1976
This is a report about a pair of identical twins with identical symptoms of a similar to schizophrenic psychosis. The course of the disease with special reference to the influence by each other and a similar and a dissimilar treatment is described. This disease is subgrouped to the symbiontic psychoses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe endocrine effects of drugs on two groups of 12 male sexual offenders in a special hospital were studied. In the first study benperidol, chlorpromazine and placebo were compared and in the second ethynyl oestradiol and cyproterone acetate were compared with no treatment. In the first study there was no difference between the three drugs in their effects on plasma testosterone or luteinizing hormone (LH).
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