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Anxiety in the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Jacobo E. Mintzer ,
Olga Brawman-Mintzer ,
Dario F. Mirski  and
Karin Barkin
Jacobo E. Mintzer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Olga Brawman-Mintzer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Dario F. Mirski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Karin Barkin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
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Extract

Anxiety symptoms in dementia can be seen as an expression of stress in predisposed patients who become aware of their cognitive decline. In later stages of the disease, when awareness is lost, the presence of anxiety symptoms cannot be explained as a reaction to this type of stress. The presence of anxiety symptoms in the more impaired patients becomes similar and probably as complex in its etiology and clinical manifestations as other behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). In this review, we will discuss anxiety symptoms in BPSD.

Type
Phenomenology
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 12 , Issue S1 , July 2000 , pp. 139 - 142
Copyright
© 2000 International Psychogeriatric Association

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