A recently published case report in the journal Neurocase describes an unusual and distressing psychiatric condition that ...

Your loved one’s dementia-related psychosis symptoms that you can see and hear are only the tip of the iceberg. They will experience many complications that you cannot see.

Natural history of psychosis and depression in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease: persistance and new cases over 1 year of follow up. J Clin Psychiatry 2001; 62: 46–49.

When it also includes psychotic episodes -- times when the person seems to have lost touch to some degree with reality -- it can be even more unnerving. But dementia-related psychosis is very common.

Her husband, Wes Perkins, 82, has vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s; at one point, when he required institutionalization for dementia psychosis, his care became particularly difficult.

Anti-psychotic drugs should be a last resort Most antipsychotic medications, including all that were included in the study, aren’t approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ...

People with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are 2.5 times more likely than those without a psychotic disorder to eventually develop dementia, according to a review of evidence led by UCL ...

People with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are 2.5 times more likely than those without a psychotic disorder to eventually develop dementia, according to a new review.

Regarding dementia, for example, “a 1.2% increase in the population in absolute terms and compared to in other previous infections is hard to ignore,” he said.

In April 2021, the FDA rejected the Nuplazid application for dementia-related psychosis. The regulator told Acadia that the subgroups lacked evidence to show the drug’s efficacy.

First approved by the FDA in 2016 for Parkinson’s disease psychosis, Nuplazid suffered an FDA rejection in a broad dementia-related psychosis indication last April. For its second try, Acadia is ...

Dementia-related psychosis occurs in many types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease dementia, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia.