1. Best Practices in the Identification and Management of Alzheimer Agitation

3. Introduction

4. Effects of AD Agitation

5. Agitation Treatment Options

6. Antipsychotics and AD

7. CATIE-AD

8. Discontinuing Antipsychotics

9. Provisional Definition of Agitation

10. Agitation Epidemiology

11. Case 1

12. Case 1 (cont)

13. Behavioral Change

14. Case 2

15. Case 2 (cont)

16. Selecting Therapy

17. Diagnosis: NPI

18. Diagnosis: APA Guideline Recommendations

19. Scales

20. Treatment: APA Guideline Recommendations

21. Pharmacologic Therapy

22. Investigational Therapies: DM/Q

23. Investigational Therapies: DM/Q (cont)

24. Investigational Therapies: Pimavanserin

25. Investigational Therapies: Cannabinoids

26. Investigational Therapies: Citalopram

27. Conclusions

28. Abbreviations