Interview Highlights
- When treating elderly patients with antipsychotics, you need to watch for the 3 classic angle-closure symptoms: sudden eye pain, redness of the eye, and visual disturbances.
- For geriatric insomnia, trazodone, gabapentin, and mirtazapine are recommended.
- Extrapyramidal side effects with antidepressants, especially SSRIs, tend to be underrecognized in the elderly population.
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This edition of Psychopharmacology Institute’s Expert Interviews features Sandra Jacobson, M.D.
Dr. Jacobson is a research associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. In her lecture, she focuses on good practice guidelines, particularly relevant to the geriatric population, by sharing prescribing principles, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics in different drug classes.
Dana Wang, M.D.: Dr. Jacobson, tell us a little
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