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Other medications that have been tried for chronic agitation include beta-blockers such as propranolol (Inderal) and pindolol (Visken) (Weiler et al., 1988), antihistamines and lithium carbonate (Eskalith, Lithobid).
One of the most stressing and vexing changes in behavior in patients with dementia is agitation, which occurs in about half of patients at some point in their illness, says Pierre Tariot, M.D., professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neurology, who led the study. Agitation is also difficult for doctors to treat. Currently there is no medication approved by the Food & Drug Administration to treat agitation in patients with dementia, though doctors and families often try to quell the symptoms with drugs that have been approved for other uses.