Psychiatria pre prax 4/2005

NEUROLEPTICS IN ACUTE GERONTOPSYCHIATRY – PRESENT SITUATION AND TRENDS

This article presents a work of authors, which targets problems of antipsychotics indications on acute gerontopsychiatric department of mental institution. Work was presented as a poster at psychopharmacological congress in Jeseník, January 2005. The goal was an evaluation of present situation in antipsychotic treatment of gerontopsychiatric patients with regards to both indications and a spectrum of effective medications, and an estimation of further trend in this area of psychopharmacotherapy.

Keywords: typical antipsychotics, atypical antipsychotics.