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Reversible anorexia and rapid weight loss associated with neuroleptic administration in Alzheimer's disease
1Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Weight loss and malnutrition despite adequate dietary intake has been reported to be part of the clinical course in advanced dementia of the Alzheimer type. We present a case of reversible weight loss associated with neuroleptic use in a patient with Alzheimer's disease and discuss a possible pathophysiological basis for the weight loss.