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Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy With Agitation: Response to Trazodone but not to Thiothixine or Carbamazepine

Lon S. Schneider

Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences

Ronald P. Gleason

Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences

Helena C. Chui

Department of Neurology University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.

A 66-year-old man with progressive supranuclear palsy is described. Although generally apathetic, withdrawn, and aspontaneous in speech and behavior, he had sudden episodes of agitation, during which he was verbally threatening and physically abusive. Treatment with thiothixine and then with carbamazepine was ineffective in controlling his violent behavior. He responded temporarily to trazodone, and a recurrence of aggressive behavior was suppressed by increasing the dose of trazodone; this response may be related to trazodone's putative effect on the serotonin system. Although both carbamazepine and trazodone have been advocated for the control of aggression in organically impaired patients, they were not equally effective in this case. (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 1989;2:109-112).

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 109-112 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/089198878900200212
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